Vocabulary

thick patch of mixed weeds

our lady's bedstraw (Galium verum); yellow bedstraw

whisk fern (Psilotum nudum)

Amana edulis (species of flowering bulb)

trailing ice plant (Lampranthus spectabilis)

ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum)

Crassulaceae (plant family)

(gay) cruising spot; (gay) pick-up joint (e.g. bar)

orpine (Hylotelephium telephium)

Siebold's stonecrop (Hylotelephium sieboldii)

Chinese dunce cap (species of succulent plant, Orostachys iwarenge)

Penthorum chinense (species of saxifrage)

kalanchoe (esp. species Kalanchoe blossfeldiana)

Sedum bulbiferum (species of stonecrop)

needle stonecrop (Sedum lineare)

Sedum rupifragum (species of stonecrop)

stonecrop (Sedum spp.)

houseleek (any plant species of genus Sempervivum)

Climacium japonicum (species of moss)

Climacium japonicum (species of moss)

contractile vacuole

phagosome

trichocyst

pirarucu (Arapaima gigas); arapaima; paiche

secretory gland

carbon cycle

cast-iron pipe

charcoal

charcoal filter

white charcoal

black charcoal

binchō charcoal; high-grade charcoal produced from ubame oak

regulation egg

chimeric mouse

temple; shrine (esp. one at which worshippers pray for favors); prayer hall

cruising bar, esp. for gays

combination (e.g. of foodstuffs)

tanning salon

divinity

relative rank accorded the gods of Shintoism