| English | Japanese |
| n obsc broad field of sparsely growing cogon grass | 浅茅生 |
| n sparsely connected neural network | 疎結合ニューラルネットワーク |
| sparsely decorated room | 殺風景な部屋 (karulenk) |
| adj-i sparsely eating | 食の細い |
| n sparsely growing cogon grass | 浅茅 often used in literature as an example of a bleak landscape |
| n sparsely-spotted pygmy-goby | シリウスベニハゼ |