<entry id="2223536" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
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<ent_seq>1718630</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>処女地</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>しょじょち</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>virgin territory</gloss>
<gloss>virgin soil</gloss>
<gloss>uncultivated land</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>unexplored area (of study, research, etc.)</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2023-03-01 08:04:42" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Brian Krznarich</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>処女地	4254

I didn't xref this otherwise popular term from 処女 because I thought the gloss was hard to reason about... "virgin soil" was maybe not technically wrong, but it's not an overly familiar term to me in this context.  Seemed overly literal.  Reverso has a bunch of entries for "virgin land", but I didn't look at how many were J-&gt;E vs E-&gt;J. "virgin territory" was on one entry.

"virgin territory" has the nice property of being a nice gloss for [2] as well, I think. I would have put "virgin territory" as the first entry in [1], but it looks nicer lined up with [2]...

Someone here might have better gloss suggestions.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>reverso gives 27 examples, 26 are "virgin land" and 1 is "virgin territory". 

m-w.com
virgin soil
noun
: soil that has never been cultivated

virgin soil

collins: noun
soil that has not been cultivated before
a person or thing that is as yet undeveloped

sankoku
１。まだ人の手の加わっていない土地。
２。まだ誰も調査・研究をしていない学問分野

daijs 出典：デジタル大辞泉（小学館）
しょじょ‐ち〔シヨヂヨ‐〕【処女地】 の解説
１ まだ開墾されていない土地。
２ 研究・調査などで、まだ手がつけられていない分野。</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -12 +12,6 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;virgin soil&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;uncultivated land&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;virgin territory&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;/sense&gt;
+&lt;sense&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;unexplored area (eg. of study, research)&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-03-01 10:56:42" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>All the JEs I checked have "virgin soil". It's even the Japanese title of Turgenev's novel.
Please use our "e.g." style.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -11,0 +12,2 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;virgin territory&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;virgin soil&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -13 +14,0 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;virgin territory&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -17 +18 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;unexplored area (eg. of study, research)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;unexplored area (e.g. of study, research)&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-03-03 02:18:41" stat="A">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -18 +18 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;unexplored area (e.g. of study, research)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;unexplored area (of study, research, etc.)&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-03-03 10:33:06" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>