Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A lake of southern Honshu, Japan, west of Nagoya. It is the largest lake in the country and a popular scenic resort area.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Japanese musical instrument with four strings, resembling a flat mandolin.
- noun The loquat; the fruit of the Photinia Japonica.
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Lake Biwa is Japan's largest lake and covers more than 259 square miles.
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Lake Biwa is Japan's largest lake and covers more than 259 square miles.
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Lake Biwa is Japan's largest lake and covers more than 259 square miles.
Special Report: The Latest On The Would-Be Record Largemouth 2009
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The largest lake is Biwa, which is about 180 miles in circumference,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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The fish was supposedly taken from Lake Biwa in Japan, the same lake where a 25-pound bass was reportedly netted earlier this year.
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Mr. Oguri then contacted the Shiga-Ken Police Department (enforcers of Lake Biwa laws).
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In any case, this is a great catch, but it is ashame that it comes from a country where the largemouth is considered a trash fish and they serve it n the menu in the restaurant on Lake Biwa where it was caught.
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Just in from Japan: a new world-record largemouth may have been bested in Lake Biwa.
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In recent years Japanese officials have reacted to concerns by commercial fishermen there and tried to eliminate invasive species from Biwa, and black bass, or largemouth bass, are on that list of invasives.
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The Lake Biwa Museum Restaurant serves largemouth bass on its menu.
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