Meaning of 鼈 in Japanese
Definition of 鼈
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(n) Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis); soft-shelled turtle (Trionychidae)
月とすっぽん。
They are as different as day and night.
Words related to 鼈
- (exp) like chalk and cheese (superficially similar, but completely different) (the moon and a turtle shell are both round, but they are otherwise completely different); like day and night; like the difference between heaven and hell
- (n) tortoiseshell (of the hawksbill turtle); bekko
- (in Chinese medicine) tortoiseshell (esp. of the Chinese soft-shelled turtle)
- (n) amber (colour, color)
- (n) chiton (any marine mollusk of the class Polyplacophora); sea cradle
- Japanese chiton (Acanthopleura japonica)
- (n) spider wasp; pompilid
- (n) common stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus)
- (n) article of tortoise shell; tortoiseshell work
- (n) hard candy; candy suckers molded on a griddle; tortoise-shell candy
