くつわ虫

Japanese
Kanji in this term
虫
むし
Grade: 1
Alternative spellings
くつわ蟲 (kyūjitai)
轡虫
轡蟲

Noun

くつわ虫(むし) or くつわ虫(ムシ) • (kutsuwa mushi) 

  1. giant katydid, Mecopoda niponensis, a species of katydid in the family Tettigoniidae
    Synonym: ガチャガチャ

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.

References
  • Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  • Yoshiro Kojima, Shigeru Takebayashi, Keisuke Nakao, and Hideo Masuda, editors (2005), Luminous Japanese-English Dictionary, second edition, Kenkyusha
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