Vocabulary

elderly woman

elderly woman

diary shared between friends (who take turns writing entries); exchange diary

aspiration; self aim; personal goal

baseball cap

baseball team

bright yellow (the color of amur corktree bark)

ichthyornis (extinct Cretaceous-period seabird)

fishes and birds

chili pepper

corn; maize

foreign ship (originally only of Dutch ships, but later referring to all foreign ships)

continuity; continuance

pair (esp. of mated animals); brace; couple

penguin

class action lawsuit; class action

Pietism

Northern Di people (Zhou dynasty term for non-ethnic Chinese to the north); northern barbarians

local residents

kindling; tinder; chips of firewood

legless lizard (esp. Anguidae spp., incl. glass lizards and slow worms)

caecilian (any burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona)

caecilian (any burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona)

caecilian (any burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona)

Machilus thunbergii (species of laurel)

paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)

Broussonetia kazinoki (species of mulberry)

bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, incl. mosses, hornworts and liverworts)

common hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum)

hornworts (non-vascular plants of order Anthocerotopsida)

mosses (non-vascular plants of class Bryopsida)

liverworts; hepatics (non-vascular plants of order Marchantiophyta)

common clubmoss (Lycopodium clavatum); stag's-horn clubmoss; running clubmoss; ground pine

Miquel's mazus (species of small flowering plant, Mazus miquelii)

Miquel's mazus (species of small flowering plant, Mazus miquelii)

strap-on dildo

caddisfly; caddis fly (any moth-like insect of the order Trichoptera)

Trichoptera (the order of insects comprising the caddisflies)

caddis worm; caddis-worm (caddisfly larva)

Old World monkey (any monkey of family Cercopithecidae)