jpdb beta

to be hard (to do); to be difficult; to require much effort; to be laborious; to be backbreaking; to have trouble (doing)

boneless (of a fillet, etc.); without bone; lacking (moral) conviction; weak-principled; having no backbone

Japanese spatterdock (species of water lily, Nuphar japonica)

boning (fish or meat); deboning; watering down (a plan, bill, etc.); dilution; taking the backbone out of; weakening

relaxation; recreation; recess

to the core; to the bone; (lit.) to the marrow

on the bone (meat, etc.); unboned; skeletal system; skeleton

skin and bones

cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes

laborious; arduous; strenuous; painstaking; trying; taxing

having spirit; (being) staunch; having backbone

person of doubtful origin

person of doubtful origin

pains; efforts; trouble; labor; labour; services

flesh and bones

jawbone; mandible

fried fish bones (eaten as a snack)

osteotomy; finely cutting a fish to cut up its small bones

bonesetting

joint (between bones)

separation of the meat from the bones; ease of filleting; ease of boning

bone scan; bone scintigraphy

backbreaking work

kanji "bone" radical at left

something that one would not expect to exist; something exceedingly rare; (lit.) jellyfish bones

bone oil; clarified bone stock

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