Vocabulary

Super Tuesday

sex appeal

set upper

self-esteem

census

century

soft landing

solaria; solar area

Tigers (usu. sports team)

tangible

tartan (i.e. plaid pattern or fabric)

double standard

Tour de ... (e.g. Tour de France)

terraforming

delphinium

rice cooking; boiling rice

lower millstone; nether millstone

coarse broken tea leaves and buds generated during the sifting process

(in fiction) person changed into a vampire by magic

sheep's fescue (Festuca ovina)

hydrilla (species of aquatic plant, Hydrilla verticillata)

peat soil

herbaceous peat

peat pot

peat moss

Eleocharis kuroguwai (species of spikerush)

Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis var. tuberosa)

helophyte; marsh plant

floating watermoss (Salvinia natans)

emergent plant

Eurasian hazel (Corylus avellana)

Japanese alder (Alnus japonica)

black mangrove (Bruguiera gymnorrhiza)

Kandelia obovata (species of mangrove)

mangrove (of family Rhizophoraceae)

Rhizophora mucronata (species of mangrove)

mangrove forest

mangrove (esp. the black mangrove, Bruguiera gymnorrhiza)

grey mangrove (Avicennia marina); white mangrove

Rangoon creeper (Quisqualis indica)