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- noun A plant, Hedysarum alpinum, whose edible root is consumed by the Inuit of Alaska.
Etymologies
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But we also drink it in a square wooden box called a masu.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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But we also drink it in a square wooden box called a masu.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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But we also drink it in a square wooden box called a masu.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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They injected newly hatched but sterile Asian masu salmon with sperm-growing cells from rainbow trout — and watched the salmon grow up to produce trout.
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There are 10 salmonid fish such as chum, pink and masu salmon Onchorhyncus keta, O. gorbuscha and O. masu, Dolly Varden char Salvelinus malma, white-spotted char Salvelinus leucomaenis, and Japanese hucho Hucho perryi.
Shiretoko, Japan 2008
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One watershed adjacent to the Bystrinsky Nature Park contains eleven species of salmonid fish, several being considered nationally threatened: king Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, silver O. kisutch, both resident and anadromous forms of sockeye salmon O. nerka and steelhead and rainbow trout Salmo mykiss, chum O. keta, pink O. gorbuscha and cherry salmon O. masu, Dolly Varden char Salvelinus malma, white-spotted char S. leucomaenis, and whitefish Coregonis ssp.
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One phrase reads: Velθina hinθa cape muni-cle-t masu = "Velthina below (hinθa) was entombed (masu) with the sarcophagus (cape) in this plot (muni-cle-t)."
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The name must derive however from a word used for "burial" or "entombment" built on the verb mas since its participle form masu is found twice in the Cippus Perusinus CPer A.xiv, A.xvii.
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The name must derive however from a word used for "burial" or "entombment" built on the verb mas since its participle form masu is found twice in the Cippus Perusinus CPer A.xiv, A.xvii.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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Not in meaning "do not come", but rather "can not come". kaneru attaches to the same form that -masu does called 連用形 in Japanese.
Negational particles, negational verbs and negational adverbs 2007
hernesheir commented on the word masu
In feudal Japan, the amount of rice a person would eat in one day. See koku.
February 12, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word masu
The small wooden container from which sake is imbibed.
September 30, 2011