a seed / a pit or stone in a fruit / a gamete (reproductive cell such as a spermatozoan or egg) / a lineage, bloodline / an origin, cause / the materials or ingredients from which something is made

Synonym of 日本狼 (Nihon'ōkami, “Japanese wolf”) / Synonym of 野犬 (yaken, “wild dog”)

to go extinct; to be annihilated; to be eliminated

extinction; annihilation; elimination

on the verge of / on the brink of

crisis, pinch

characteristic of, particular to

particularity, innateness

(literary, rare) by the ocean

seed / plant, sow / class, kind, variety / (taxonomy) species