触腕
Japanese
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| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 触 | 腕 |
| しょく Grade: S |
わん Grade: S |
| on'yomi | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 觸腕 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology
[edit]Seemingly a Japanese coinage from Middle Chinese-derived 触 (shoku, “feeling; feeler”) + 腕 (wan, “arm”). Appears during the mid- to late-1800s, in either the Edo period or Meiji period.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (biology, anatomy) a tentacle: specifically, either of the two tentacles of a squid or cuttlefish that are longer than the other eight (technically called “arms”)
- 1977, 竹村 よしお and 佐藤 魚水, 海の釣り魚, →ISBN
- 普段は短い ８本の腕と同じく目立たないようにしているが、接近するなり、ショットして触腕を伸長させて捕捉する。
- Fudan wa mijikai happon no ude to onajiku medatanai yō ni shite iru ga, sekkin suru nari, shotto shite shokuwan o shinchō sasete hosoku suru.
- Usually, like the eight shorter arms, [the two longer tentacles] also try not to stand out. However, as soon as [the cuttlefish] approaches [its prey], it shoots and extends its tentacles to capture it.
- 普段は短い ８本の腕と同じく目立たないようにしているが、接近するなり、ショットして触腕を伸長させて捕捉する。
- 1977, 竹村 よしお and 佐藤 魚水, 海の釣り魚, →ISBN
See also
[edit]Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 触 read as しょく
- Japanese terms spelled with 腕 read as わん
- Japanese terms read with on'yomi
- Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji
- Japanese terms with 2 kanji
- ja:Biology
- ja:Anatomy
- Japanese terms with usage examples