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language

leaf

fresh leaves

postcard

written word

password

new leaves

maple (tree)

seed leaves (of a dicot)

inquisitively

pine needle

fallen leaves

speech

two flat things

Chiba (city, prefecture)

one leaf

broadleaf tree

leaf (of a tree)

dead leaf

conifer

picture postcard

spoken language

language of flowers (e.g. the use of red roses to signify love)

leaf

branches and leaves

three-leaf clover

mitsuba (Cryptotaenia japonica)

true leaf

about the middle (of an era)

Japanese white pine (favored for gardens and bonsai)

beefsteak plant

Chiba Lotte Marines (Japanese pro baseball team)

Chiba University (abbr)

four-leaf clover

plant having four leaves on one stalk

cotyledon

leaf apex

Chinese flowering ash (Fraxinus lanuginosa form. serrata)

lobe

word to soften awkward topics (esp. refusal in business conversation, e.g. "I am afraid that ...")

sociolect emphasizing the femininity of the speaker (esp. used by homosexual men)

teyo-dawa speech

word salad

with all due respect

filler word

to put into words

figure of speech

word

(your) words

Ecclesiastes (book of the Bible)

to speak to

sociolect used by prostitutes in the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period

to make a pun on a word

Tokyo and Chiba

preceding page

adenohypophyseal hormone

cigar

artificial leaf

euphemisms used by hunters, lumberjacks, etc. when in the wild

local dialect

local dialect

Chinese fringe tree (Chionanthus retusus)

Man'yōshū (8th century anthology of Japanese poetry)

women's language

spoken language

lower leaves

prothallium

at a loss for words

leaf (of a tree)

Chiba Prefecture (Kanto area)

gold leaf

upper leaves

sa-added word (i.e. causative forms with an extra 'sa' like 'ikasaseru' for 'iku')

posterity

neurohypophyseal hormone

Angelica keiskei (species of angelica, a herb of the parsley family)

Chiba University

lamina

language used when writing letters

postcard size

laconic

ineffable

fighting words

rustling of leaves

green spring onion

leaf tobacco

leaf lettuce

leaflike

mesenchyme

broad leaf

next page

textspeak

new leaves

thallus

prothallium

beginning of an epoch

Japanese white pine (favored for gardens and bonsai)

Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora)

In the beginning was the Word

large number of words

refined speech of the uptown residents of Tokyo

men's language

foliage plant

postcards with the bottom third of the front side reserved for an advertisement, and sold at a lower cost than regular postcards

word of Japanese origin

word of Japanese origin

island language

to become speechless

end (of an era, century)

tip of a leaf

vernacular

to exchange words

to exchange words

Matsuba-kai (yakuza syndicate)

repeated word or phrase

to choose one's words (with care)

word choice

frontal lobe

lack of words

adding a superfluous "re" to the potential form of a godan verb

old leaf

to stop talking

common word

as stated

petalite

Word of God

poetic style typical of Man'yōshū

right lobe

Man'yōshū (8th century anthology of Japanese poetry)

pine needle

snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio)

number of words

lamina

to say too much

Disanthus cercidifolius (species of witch-hazel)

complete leaf

speech

leaf primordium

to leave words (behind one, e.g. after death)

blighted leaves

working-class dialect of the Shitamachi area of Tokyo

leaf shape

opposite leaves

monocotyledon

center of the Garbhadhatu mandala (containing Mahavairocana and eight Buddhas)

tongue twister

samurai words and phrases

novice driver mark

Keiyō Line

floral leaf