盲蜘蛛

Japanese

Kanji in this term
盲 蜘 蛛
めくら
Grade: S 		くも > ぐも
Hyōgai Hyōgai
kun'yomi jukujikun

Etymology

Literally, “blind spider”, 盲(めくら) (mekura, “blind”) + 蜘蛛(くも) (kumo, “spider”, jukujikun (熟字訓)). The kumo changes to gumo as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) めくらぐも [mèkúrágúꜜmò] (Nakadaka – [4])
  • IPA(key): [me̞kɯ̟ɾa̠ɡɯ̟mo̞]

Noun

盲(めくら)蜘蛛(ぐも) or 盲蜘蛛(メクラグモ) • (mekuragumo) 

  1. synonym of 座頭虫 (zatōmushi, “harvestman”)
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