天狗巣

天狗(てんぐ) (tengu, “tengu”) + 巣(す) (su, “nest”)

• IPA^(key): [tẽ̞ŋɡɯ̟sɨ]

天(てん)狗(ぐ)巣(す) • (tengusu) 

1. an area of dense growing twigs or branches on a tree or shrub, said to resemble a nest
2. short for 天狗巣病 (“witch's broom plant disease”)

• 天(てん)狗(ぐ)巣(す)病(よう) (tengusuyō): literally “tengu nest disease”, a microbial infection of cherry and other trees that causes a cluster of many small branches and knots