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soy flour made from parched green soybeans

cyanide process

blue-gray snapper (Aprion virescens); green jobfish

fruit harvested before it's ripened

spiderwort-dyed paper (used for making a rough sketch when dyeing)

Food, cooking

liquid seasoning made from leaf vegetables mixed with sake, mirin, sugar, etc.

dark indigo tinged with brighter blue

bright yellow-green tinged with grey

maple tree not yet turned red

kasane color combination (green at front and russet behind)

green mandarin; mandarin variety that can be eaten while the skin is green

Food, cooking

salad of fish and vegetables, dressed with crushed mustard leaves and greens seasoned with sake lees, miso and vinegar

the Young Turks

aoganpi (Wikstroemia retusa); ganpi

small-scale whiting (Sillago parvisquamis); blue whiting

Epipactis papillosa (species of orchid)

red-root amaranth (Amaranthus retroflexus); redroot pigweed; red-rooted pigweed; common amaranth; pigweed amaranth; common tumbleweed

blue letter style; comparatively mature fashion style named after fashion magazines featuring it (whose cover titles are printed in blue)

Abdim's stork (Ciconia abdimii); white-bellied stork

Hanafuda

scoring combination consisting of the June, September, and October 5-point cards

Abbreviation

blue release liner

Named after LDP politician Mikio Aoki

Aoki index (sum of the approval ratings of the cabinet and the ruling party)

indigo wax shaped as an inkstick

Food, cooking

blue cheese

green chili pepper; unripe chili pepper