I'll copy and paste that into my document file and make a note of it. As for my table, for now I'll define 発性 as "(biol.) multiplication, reproduction" and put a star beside it to indicate the footnote.
Aside:
[hide]I'm thinking that this might actually have been a case where we'd opt to go with definition #2. Literally translated as "self-preservation," the examples provided in parentheses for #2 are ones which make me think of a robot which goes into hibernation after certain critical features of its are irreparably lost; or an insect which scurries away and encases itself within a hard shell whilst it grows new wings to repair the ones it lost moments ago.
However, these same examples -- particularly that one about the 守るシステム -- also leave open the door for
the preservation of the macromacroorganism, i.e. the preservation of an "organism" (singular) which is in fact composed of multiple "organisms" (plural). The best example which comes to mind would be any story with tentacle monsters, whereby the singular tentacle monster is the massive, massive,
massive lifeform coating the walls of the token cave or science lab and where smaller tendrils could be the multiple lifeforms.
Alternatively, Definition #2 works if this is a story of somebody trying to survive by way of taking over somebody else's body, as you might see in a spiritual possession story.
Or maybe I'm just overthinking it, and it really was #3. XD
I love how we've all ruled out #1 though. XD "The idea of being an organism which has, outside of itself, a so-called 'energy cycle'? No way!" lol @ what sort of crazy hentai I'd have to have been reading for the Cycle of Life/Water/Nitrogen/whatever to have come into play.[/hide]