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1. adzuki, n. View full entry 1727
...More fully adzuki bean. The dark red edible bean of the leguminous plant Vigna angularis, a bushy annual cultivated in China and Japan; such beans collectively (now ...
2. andosol, n. View full entry 1958
...A mineral-rich soil derived largely from material ejected from volcanoes and typically having a dark surface layer. Cf. Andisol...
3. argali, n. View full entry 1784
...The wild or rock sheep of Asia....
4. aucuba, n. View full entry 1819
...A well-known hardy evergreen diœcious shrub (Aucuba Japonica, family Cornaceæ), with laurel-like leaves usually blotched with pale yellow, grown for ornamental purposes....
5. awabi, n. View full entry 1889
...The Japanese abalone or sea-ear (Haliotis gigantea)....
6. bai-u, n. View full entry 1910
...(A season of) rainfall in Japan in early or midsummer (see quots.)....
7. bashaw, n. View full entry 1534
...The earlier form of the Turkish title pasha...
8. bekko, n. View full entry 1889
...Tortoise-shell....
9. bok choy, n. View full entry 1847
...A kind of edible Chinese cabbage, Brassica rapa (Chinensis group), having broad, smooth-edged leaves which taper into succulent broad white petioles....
10. bonsai, n. View full entry 1950
...A Japanese potted plant or small tree, intentionally dwarfed; the method of cultivating such a plant. Also attrib....
11. byon, n. View full entry 1892
...The ruby-bearing clay of the ruby mines district of Upper Burma (Myanmar); also attrib....
12. China, n.1 and adj. View full entry 1555
...The country so called, in Asia....
13. chiru, n. View full entry 1825
...The Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsoni, with a thick, reddish-brown woolly coat, large nostrils, and (in the case of the male) very long straight horns....
14. ˈcorsac | corsak, n. View full entry 1838
...The Tartar fox, Vulpes corsac....
15. dso, n. View full entry 1882
...See quot....
16. ginkgo, n. View full entry 1773
...The maidenhair tree (Ginkgo biloba) native to China and Japan and cultivated elsewhere, with wedge-shaped leaves and yellow flowers, the only living species of the order Ginkgoales which...
17. ginseng, n. View full entry 1654
...A plant of either of two species of the genus Aralia or Panax, found in Northern China and Nepaul, also in Canada and the eastern United States....
18. goa, n.2 View full entry 1846
...An antelope of south-western China, Procapra picticauda (Hodgson)....
19. habu, n. View full entry 1895
...A venomous pit-viper, Trimeresurus flavoviridis, native to the Ryukyu Islands and neighbouring areas....
20. hamachi, n. View full entry 1978
...The young of the Japanese amberjack or yellowtail, Seriola quinqueradiata, a subtropical carangid fish of the northwest Pacific that is fished and bred in Japan as a food fish; this...
