野の

noun

field; plain; open country

Refers to an open field or plain, often with a slightly literary or set-phrase feel compared with more everyday words like 野原 or 原っぱ.

• 春はるになると野のに花はなが咲さく。

  In spring, flowers bloom in the fields.

noun

hidden interior part; concealed structural part

Specialized use for a part of a structure or object that is inside or hidden from view; not a common everyday meaning of 野.

• 建けん築ちくや工こう芸げいでは、仕し上あげで隠かくれる内うち側がわの部ぶ分ぶんを野のということがある。

  In architecture and crafts, an inner part hidden by the finish may be called no.

noun, used as a prefix

wild; field-growing; living in the wild

Prefix used before animal or plant names to mean wild or naturally growing, as opposed to cultivated, domestic, or house-kept.

See also: 野いちご · 野うさぎ

• 子こどものころ、山やまで野のいちごを摘つんだ。

  When I was a child, I picked wild strawberries in the mountains.

• 畑はたけのそばで野のうさぎを見みかけた。

  I saw a wild rabbit near the field.