メジロムシクイ

Japanese

メジロムシクイ: the eastern Orphean warbler, Sylvia crassirostris

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [me̞ʑiɾo̞mɯ̟ɕikɯ̟i]

Noun

メジロムシクイ • (mejiro mushikui) 

1. the Orphean warblers, Sylvia crassirostris (eastern Orphean warbler) and Sylvia hortensis (western Orphean warbler), two species of birds
   • 1994, Yamauchi Hisashi, “Shoku” no rekishi jinruigaku [Historical anthropology of “foodstuff”], page 169:

     フィケドラというのはよくわからないが、英(えい)訳(やく)では beccafico(ベッカフィコ) となっているので、オナガムシクイかメジロムシクイのことかもしれない。

     Fikedora to iu no wa yoku wakaranai ga, Eiyaku de wa bekkafiko to natteiru no de, onaga mushikui ka mejiro mushikui no koto kamoshirenai.

     I am uncertain about fiquedora, but the English translation is “beccafico”, so it is likely the Dartford warbler or Orphean warbler.

Usage notes

• As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).