猩々蝿

Japanese

Kanji in this term
猩 猩 蝿
しょう
Hyōgai 		しょう > じょう
Hyōgai 		はえ > ばえ
Hyōgai
goon kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
猩猩蠅 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

猩々(しょうじょう) (shōjō, “heavy drinker”) + 蝿(はえ) (hae, “fly”). The hae changes to bae as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Noun

猩(しょう)々(じょう)蝿(ばえ) or 猩々蝿(ショウジョウバエ) • (shōjōbae) 

  1. fruit fly, a fly in the family Drosophilidae
    Synonym: (dialectal, Kagoshima) 糠蝿 (nukabe)
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