jpdb beta

competition; contest; rivalry; competition (between organisms or species)

5

eradication; extermination; rooting out; stamping out; getting rid of

1

impractical; unpractical

1

search; quest; pursuit

1

charming; fascinating; enchanting; bewitching; beguiling; captivating

1

ancient China

1

humid; sultry

1

weather

2

to become damp; to become moist; to become wet; to lack energy; to be in a slump; to be in low spirits

2

bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)

2

India

15

code of law; body of law

1

oviparity; produced from eggs

1

fly (any insect of infraorder Muscomorpha); person of no worth; pisher; scrub

4

rhinoceros beetle (esp. the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus)

2

Nile (river)

2

mud; slush; (wet) dirt; thief

8

heat; fever; temperature; zeal; passion

44

frog

3

toad (esp. the Japanese toad, Bufo japonicus)

1

snake; serpent; large snake

2

mouse; rat; dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour)

30

hot; warm; passionate; impassioned; on everybody's mind; on the radar

8

to crawl out; to creep out; to begin to crawl

2

holiness; sacredness; sanctity; dignity

3

feces (esp. animal); excrement; dung

3

food; foodstuff; eating; appetite; meal; portion

1

scarab (Egyptian gemstone); scarabeid (any of a group of beetles including the scarab beetle, Scarabeus sacer)

1

ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet

1

honeybee (Apis sp.); honey bee

3

cattle (Bos taurus); cow; bull; beef

5

spoiled; half-rotten; decaying

1

outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state

72

counter for people

83

wise person; virtuous person; sage; unrefined sake

1

Thales (Greek mathematician, c.624-546 BCE)

1

previous engagement; previous promise

1

ocean

1

bottom; sole

1

to pierce; to penetrate; to be infected (with vice); to be steeped (with prejudice); to feel keenly; to make a deep impression

1

to take out; to get out; to put out; to reveal; to submit (e.g. thesis); to turn in; to publish

9

ditch; drain; groove; tread; gap (between people, countries, etc.); gulf

1

old woman

1

to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted

3

premature; untimely (e.g. death); early

1

to grow old; to age

2

such ... as; or some such

1

Anaximandros

1

Xenophanes

1

Anaxagoras

1