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
a female くつわ虫 (kutsuwa mushi)

Noun

くつわ虫(むし) • (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
  • 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), 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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