轡虫
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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轡 | 虫 |
くつわ Hyōgai |
むし Grade: 1 |
kun'yomi |
Alternative spellings |
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轡蟲 (kyūjitai) くつわ虫 |
Noun
轡虫 or 轡虫 • (kutsuwa mushi)
- giant katydid, Mecopoda niponensis, a species of katydid in the family Tettigoniidae
- (figurative) a noisy person, noisy people
Usage notes
As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as クツワムシ (kutsuwamushi).
References
- Matsumura, Akira, editor (1995), 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- Yoshiro Kojima, Shigeru Takebayashi, Keisuke Nakao, and Hideo Masuda, editors (2005), Luminous Japanese-English Dictionary, second edition, Kenkyusha