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otter (Lutra lutra); Japanese river otter (Lutra lutra whiteleyi)

4

dry riverbed; river beach

1

festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy

2

halite; rock salt

1

to form a line; to queue up; to line up

2

primeval forest; virgin forest

1

clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)

1

stretching a rope around; roping off; one's turf; domain; territory (of an animal)

1

angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)

2

to age; to grow old

4

beasts; mammals

3

to travel about

3

affection (esp. parental); love; fondness

1

bread

1

large tree; big tree; huge tree

1

caller; visitor; company; guest

3

neighbour; neighbor; (people in the) neighbourhood; neighborhood

1

sunbathing; basking in the sun

1

cheering in chorus; saying in unison

2

snail; cochlea

1

counter for long, thin things (i.e. swords)

1

form; shape; figure; morph

2

birth rate

1

fall; decline; lowering; deterioration; degradation

3

waste liquid

1

to crouch; to stoop; to yield; to submit; to hide; to conceal oneself

1

hard fight; difficult struggle

2

corpse; kanji "corpse" radical

3

to tear; to rip

2

Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus)

1

gene

1

to gaze (at); to stare intently (at); to look fixedly (at); to fascinate; to enchant; to possess

4

garden lantern; hanging lantern

1

to remain unextinguished; to survive

1

meaning; connotation; denotation

1

to vanish completely

1

lapping (e.g. of waves against the shore); steadily (advancing); gradually (approaching); sufficient (of the amount of liquid needed to cover a submerged object); just enough; (arch.) speedily

4

high tide; high water; full tide

2

consideration; concern; fear; worry; solicitude

2

to get damp; to get moist; to get soggy; to become humid

1

bombarding; shelling; bombardment

5

locked in a grapple

2

from where

2

documentary

1

cockscomb; comb; crest

1

to set on end (hair, fur, etc.); to make stand on end; to bristle; to ruffle (up); to raise (one's eyebrows)

1

hard to deal with; hard to handle; difficult; trying; intractable; incorrigible

3

(wrestling) ring; forum (e.g. for discussion); sandbag; gabion

2

rough scolding; upbraiding; tongue-lashing; dressing-down

1

to glare at each other; to confront each other

1