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) 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