jpdb beta

rock; boulder; crag; cliff; anchor

7

balloon (esp. small, toy variety); airship; blimp

5

contrastive

1

both; (not) either

5

apparent; obvious; very clear

1

arrangement (music, objects, etc.); organization; adaptation

1

surely; certainly

1

mumbling; chewing one's words; chewing (food); squirming; wriggling

7

light (color, colour, taste); simple; plain; frank; candid; ingenuous

1

peafowl (incl. the male peacock, female peahen, and young peachick)

13

feather; plume; wing; shuttlecock (in badminton)

4

liver; innards; courage; spirit; crux; essential point

3

not one to talk; who are you to say; look who's talking

1

concrete; definite; specific; material; substantial

2

crow (Corvus spp.); raven

1

caw caw; sound made by crows; crow

1

tree sparrow (Passer montanus); talkative person; knowledgeable person

1

chirp; cheep

1

pigeon; dove

1

green pheasant (Phasianus versicolor); Japanese pheasant

1

hopping on one foot

2

lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

1

Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale; greenish brown; having a beautiful voice

1

hooo-hokekyo (call of the Japanese bush warbler); chirp-chirp; tweet-tweet

1

kingfisher (esp. the common kingfisher, Alcedo atthis)

1

combination; assortment; matching (in a contest); pairing; combination

4

to get fed up with; to get sick of; to become disgusted with

3

strange; weird; odd; strange thing; strange person

3

phoenix (esp. fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix)

4

isn't it?

17

I fear that it's likely that; with all due respect

4

selective breeding

4

(giving) birth; childbirth; native of; product of; assets; property

7

speaking of ...; when it comes to ...; as for ...; if one were to say ...

2

top-quality sake brewed from rice grains milled to 50% of weight or less

1

speckled with white; salt-and-pepper (pattern, fabric, etc.); marbling (of beef); (of fish, chicken, shellfish, etc.) blanching by exposure to boiling and then icy water; formation of frost

1

sirloin

1

Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis)

1

fat under-belly of tuna (considered high-quality)

3

brand-name rice

1

Koshihikari (variety of rice)

2

I don't know

2

example; simile; metaphor; allegory

2

to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)

6

finish; finishing; finishing touches

5

coarsely ground (e.g. coffee, grain); minced (e.g. meat)

1

kind (of goods); brand; (taxonomical) form; breed; cultivar

2

firmly; absolutely; flatly; by far; far and away; by a long shot

1

to get a late start

1

somehow; somewhat; seemingly

1