to raise (to maturity); to bring up; to rear; to train; to educate
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
bamboo shoot; inexperienced doctor; quack
(relative) length; advantages and disadvantages; pluses and minuses; strong and weak points
empty air; sky; shunyata; emptiness; air force; fruitlessness; meaninglessness
trunk (of the body); soma
impressive; striking; memorable; impactful
(establish) friendly (cordial) relations (with, between); (form) friendship (e.g. with a nation)
resemblance; similarity; likeness; analogy
to think of; to come up with
fear; horror; anxiety; concern; uneasiness; reverence
emphatically (bite, gulp, chew, etc.)
small; small-sized; small-scale; miniature
stool (stood on to reach high objects); small stepladder; (fig.) stepping stone
frizz; short tufts springing up from hair surface here and there; kink; idiot hair
fur; skin; pelt; kanji "fur" radical
remote region; frontier (district); border(land)
people; race; nation; ethnic group; ethnos
Amazon (river, rainforest etc.); Amazon (woman of Greek mythology)
ivy (esp. Boston ivy, Parthenocissus tricuspidata)
presumably; it seems that ...; I guess that ...; I suppose that ...; one could infer that ...
feces (esp. animal); excrement; dung
theory; doctrine; opinion; view; rumour; rumor
to keep (a pet or other animal); to have; to own; to raise; to rear; to feed
to walk noisily; to walk loudly
from one's side; from the side (of something); from someone unconnected; from someone uninvolved
to rub together; to reconcile (ideas, proposals, plans); to compare and adjust
bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)
smallish; on the small side
true character; real nature
to drive away; to clear; to scatter; to disperse
one machine; one aircraft; one life
to become sulky; to become irresponsible (due to disgruntlement)
for lack of anything better to do
quacking; cackling; loudly (snore, complain, argue, etc.); noisily; with a buzzing sound (e.g. speaker); with a crackling sound
bamboo thicket; bamboo grove
to settle down; to get a steady job; to marry and raise a family; to attire oneself; to outfit oneself
moribund state; near-death; barely alive condition