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Examples
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One cricket that is very popular in Japan is called matsu-mushi.
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Ma ei saa oodata 640 000 aastat, et yellowstonei matsu näha.
Jumper (2008) Ulmeguru 2009
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Following World War II, the Forestry Agency of Japan promoted clear-cutting of the high-elevation conifer forests and replaced them with Japanese timber species such as sugi (Cryptomeria japonica) and Kara-matsu (Larix leptolepis).
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Chansu ga gûzen otozureru made kôdô wo okosu no wo matsu no machigatteiru...
Slusho! Commercial Dennis 2007
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Asa o matsu nami ni mi o makase modorenai basho o omotteru
ianthopia Diary Entry ianthopia 2005
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Had she detected a malfunction in the Haka-matsu system?
Rama Revisited Clarke, Arthur C. 1989
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He had that rare ability known to the Japanese as nariyuki no matsu, to wait for the turn of events.
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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It is possible to translate the name Pining Wind because the same double meaning exists both in English and in Japanese: matsu means 'to wait' and 'pine tree.'
Matsukaze 1978
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('A pine, one lone tree 'is matsu hito ki, which can also mean' the pining one comes. ')
Matsukaze 1978
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For a couple of miles the men raced along a level track cut on the side of a hill that rose steeply on the one hand and on the other fell away precipitously down to the sea until they halted with a sudden jerk beside a wooden gateway with a creeper-covered roof on either side of which two matsu trees stood like tall sentinels.
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