Vocabulary

asthenosphere

(theory of) isostasy

Chinese white olive (Canarium album)

peridotite

eclogite

eclogite

transformational grammar

states' rights theory

Mohorovičić discontinuity

Moho (Mohorovicic discontinuity)

proboscideans; proboscidians

(Shorin-ryu) Okinawa school of karate

mid-ocean ridge; midocean ridge

dip-slip fault

strike-slip fault

horizontal friction; strike-slip

dextral fault; right-lateral fault

sinistral fault; left-lateral fault

normal fault

reverse fault

ho-ho-ho (e.g. Santa Claus)

soba; Japanese buckwheat noodles

tongues (i.e. utterances or "languages" spoken during instances of glossolalia)

glossolalia (the phenomenon of speaking in tongues)

to speak in tongues

pardon me for leaving (first)

garden cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus); Mexican aster

Asian stubtail (Urosphena squameiceps)

Japanese marten (Martes melampus)

Lactarius laeticolorus (edible species of lactarius mushroom)

Tsushima marten (Martes melampus tsuensis, a subspecies of the Japanese marten)

stone marten; beech marten (Martes foina)

tawny milkcap mushroom (Lactarius volemus)

astilbe (flowering plant of the saxifrage family)

Astilbe microphylla (species of astilbe)

European silver fir (Abies alba)

Pacific silver fir (Abies amabilis)

Maries' fir (Abies mariesii)

Maries' fir (Abies mariesii)

Sakhalin fir (Abies sachalinensis)