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shell (of a crab, tortoise, etc.); carapace; (person's) back; years of experience

1

spinning; spun cotton (wool)

1

Zylon

1

to bury; to embed; to implant

1

snail; spiral shell

2

scouting; reconnaissance

2

looks; countenance; facial features; physiognomy

1

war of attrition

2

to put to use; to make good use of; to exploit

2

groundwater; underground water

1

remonstrance; remonstration; admonition; protest; reproof; expostulation

2

(volcanic) mud flow

1

source (of a spring, etc.); source (of payment, energy, knowledge, etc.); origin; wellspring

1

reclamation (e.g. of wasteland); cultivation; development; pioneering; opening up (e.g. of a new market); breaking new ground

1

wooden building blocks; wooden bricks; playing with building blocks; piled timber; piling up wood

1

multisystem; polyphyletic

6

to go downhill; to go down a slope

3

burial chamber

11

pair; couple

3

delicious; tasty; good; nice

3

light motor vehicle (up to 660cc and 64bhp); k-car; kei car

2

(feeling of) massiveness; (sense of) volume

1

to be filled to bursting; to burst

3

epidermis; cuticle; bark; epidermis; facade

5

lover's whispers; sweet nothings; whispered intimacies; babbling (of a baby); babble

2

traces; remnants

1

frantic (crying); wild

1

to be hideously burned; to be burned raw

5

inhabiting; living

1

rare species

1

pictorial book; picture book; illustrated reference book; identification manual; field guide

1

several items; many items

2

rare species

1

neoteny

1

iodine (I)

1

thyroid (gland)

1

to search for; to seek for; to look for

3

to catch (a wild animal, fish, insect, baseball, etc.); to capture

1

peak; summit; ridge; back of a blade

1

(scenic) view; prospect; outlook; viewing platform; overlook

1

palate

1

dark purple; grape

2

to flow out; to stream out; to pour out; to gush forth; to leak; to ooze out

2

what parents would bring up a kid like this?; (lit.) I'd like to see his (her) parents' faces

1

guidepost; signpost

2

to follow; to pursue; to die right after a loved one; to kill oneself after the death of a loved one; to follow an example set by earlier generations (or one's master, etc.)

1

light purple

2

to surround; to encircle; to enclose; to fawn over (someone); to play up to; to curry favor with

1

secluded inner room

2

walking leg (esp. of an arthropod); ambulatory leg

5