Vocabulary

Buddhist teachings; Buddhist

Roma (people); Romani

Romani (language)

Acanthopanax sciadophylloides (species of flowering plant related to the aralias)

lacquer made from the sap of Acanthopanax sciadophylloides

act of joining a crowd or assembly of people; attendance

the head; the foremost; beginning; the very front

anthracene

anthraquinone dye

alizarin

Japanese hop (Humulus japonicus)

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