盲蜘蛛

Japanese

Kanji in this term
盲	蜘	蛛
めくら Grade: S	くも > ぐも
	Hyōgai	Hyōgai
kun'yomi	jukujikun

Etymology

Literally, “blind spider”, 盲(めくら) (mekura, “blind”) + 蜘蛛(くも) (kumo, “spider”, jukujikun (熟字訓)). The kumo changes to gumo as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) めくらぐも [mèkúrágúꜜmò] (Nakadaka – [4])
• IPA^(key): [me̞kɯ̟ɾa̠ɡɯ̟mo̞]

Noun

盲(めくら)蜘蛛(ぐも) or 盲蜘蛛(メクラグモ) • (mekuragumo) 

1. Synonym of 座頭虫 (zatōmushi, “harvestman”)