Vocabulary

semantic differential

fisherman's sweater

Aran (sweater pattern)

Alan (member of an ancient Scythian people)

isolated place; hermitage

alundum (material made of fused aluminum usu. used as an abrasive)

single nucleotide polymorphism; SNP

microsatellite

primer; introductory book

noble orchid (Cymbidium goeringii)

dwarf mondo grass (Ophiopogon japonicus)

Lord's Supper (in Protestantism)

(plant) rust; rust fungus

buff; chamois

acne

blue and red; azure and crimson

fallacy (sometimes esp. a paralogism)

Eleatic school; Eleatics

Zeno's paradoxes

Achilles argument (i.e. Achilles and the tortoise; one of Zeno's paradoxes)

Sophists

sophist

color spotting; color irregularity; color spots

Sorbus gracilis (species of mountain ash)

Siberian mountain ash (Sorbus sambucifolia)

ketosis

drinking semen; swallowing semen

(unrefined) brown sugar; muscovado

present invention

polynucleotide

oligonucleotide

electron transport chain

beta-galactosidase

oligopoly

bowl used for serving rice

things prohibited by chopstick etiquette

things prohibited by chopstick etiquette

things prohibited by chopstick etiquette

clasping chopsticks between one's hands as in a gesture of prayer (a breach of etiquette)

joining both chopsticks together and using them as a spoon (breach of chopstick etiquette)