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
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
fried fish bones (eaten as a snack)
osteotomy; finely cutting a fish to cut up its small bones
separation of the meat from the bones; ease of filleting; ease of boning
bone scan; bone scintigraphy
kanji "bone" radical at left
something that one would not expect to exist; something exceedingly rare; (lit.) jellyfish bones
bone oil; clarified bone stock