asahikawa
— Noun
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～ a city on western Hokkaido that is the center of a fertile agricultural area
ASALA
— Noun
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～ a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in 1975 to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in 1915; wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia; "ASALA bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in 1983 killed 8 and wounded 55 people"
Asama
— Noun
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～ a volcano in central Honshu near Nagano; one of the largest volcanoes in Japan (8,340 feet)
Asamiya
— Noun
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～ the Magadhan language spoken by the Assamese people; closely related to Bengali
asana
— Noun
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～ (Hinduism) a posture or manner of sitting (as in the practice of yoga)
Asanga
— Noun
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～ Indian religious leader and founder of the Yogacara school of Buddhism in India (4th century)
ASAT
— Adjective
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～ of or relating to a system to destroy satellites in orbit; "antisatellite weapons"
Asbat al-Ansar
— Noun
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～ an extremist Palestinian Sunni group active in Lebanon in the early 1990s that advocates Salafism; responsible for murders and bombings; seeks to overthrow the Lebanese government and control Palestinian refugee camps; funded by al-Qaeda
asbestos abatement
— Noun
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～ the removal of asbestos from a public building
asbestos
— Noun
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～ a fibrous amphibole; used for making fireproof articles; inhaling fibers can cause asbestosis or lung cancer
asbestosis
— Noun
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～ lung disease caused by inhaling asbestos particles
Allium ascalonicum
— Noun
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～ type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning
ascaphidae
— Noun
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～ family of one species of frog: tailed frog
ascaphus
— Noun
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～ type genus of the Ascaphidae; in some classifications included in the family Leiopelmatidae
ascariasis
— Noun
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～ infestation of the human intestine with Ascaris roundworms
Ascaridae
— Noun
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～ large roundworms parasitic in intestines of vertebrates