穂咲の総藻

ほざきのふさも ホザキノフサモ

Eurasian water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum)

下野

げや しもつけ シモツケ

Japanese spirea (Spiraea Japonica)

下野草

しもつけそう シモツケソウ

meadowsweet (Filipendula multijuga)

下毛野

しもつけの

Japanese spirea (Spiraea Japonica)

穂

ほ

ear (of plant), head (of plant)

野に下る

やにくだる のにくだる

to leave the government service

穂並

ほなみ

rows of grain thrusting upright

落穂

おちぼ

fallen ears (of grain), gleanings

初穂

はつほ はつお

first ears of rice of the season, first crops of the season, first harvest of the season

穂波

ほなみ

waving heads (of grain)

黒穂

くろほ くろぼ

smut

穂状

すいじょう

shaped like an ear of grain

花穂

かすい かほ

spike

穂先

ほさき

ear (e.g. of wheat)

穂綿

cattail cotton; cattail fluff; bulrush down

瑞穂

fresh, young ears of rice

穂木

ほぎ

twig used in grafting, budwood

蔓穂

つるぼ ツルボ

Scilla scilloides (species of squill)

稲穂

いなほ

ear (head) of rice