杜

Vocabulary (12)

• 寒葵

  かんあおい

  Asarum nipponicum (species of wild ginger)

• 杜の都

  もりのみやこ

  Capital of Trees (nickname for Sendai City)

• 杜仲科

  とちゅうか

  Eucommiaceae (monotypic plant family containing only the hardy rubber tree)

• 杜仲茶

  とちゅうちゃ

  Tochū tea (high in minerals and reputed to be beneficial for weight loss and in cases of high blood pressure)

• 杜撰脱漏

  ずさんだつろう

  careless (slipshod) and with many omissions

• 杜氏

  とうじ

  chief brewer at a sake brewery

• 西洋杜松

  せいようねず

  common juniper (Juniperus communis)

• 岩垂杜松

  いわだれねず

  dwarf Japanese garden juniper (Juniperus chinensis var. procumbens)

• 杜夫魚

  かくぶつ

  fourspine sculpin (species of fish, Cottus kazika)

• 鎮守の杜

  ちんじゅのもり

  grove of the village shrine

• 杜仲

  とちゅう

  hardy rubber tree (near-threatened species often used in Chinese medicine, Eucommia ulmoides)

• 沓手鳥

  くつてどり

  lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)