n. an area in the Borkou-Ennedi-Tibe region of Chad; a well in the Borkou-Ennedi-Tibe region of Chad.
n. an intermittent stream in Benin.
Yayoi.
n. a period in Japanese history from 300 B.C. to 300 A.D.
<The Aoya-Kamijichi ruins are known in archaeological circles as “an underground museum of the Yayoi Period” following the discovery of various artifacts, including hunting tools [and preserved brain tissue], at the location. —“Yayoi Brain Tissue Preserved in Ruins,” The Japan Times.>
Yayou.
n. a populated place in Ethiopia.
n. a populated place in the Nord region of Haiti.
yayu.
n. a fictional grub.
<It should have been as easy to draw the secret from his mouth as it is to pull the yayu grub from its hole in the ouil tree. —Phyllis Gotlieb, Flesh and Gold.>
Yayu.
n. a huge carnivorous beast in Chinese mythology, ordered to be slain by the mythical Emperor Yao.
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