Japanese word senses marked with lifeform category "Otocephalan fish"

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Parent categories: Fish, Vertebrates, Chordates, Animals, Lifeforms, Life, Nature
Subcategories: Catfish, Characins, Cyprinids, Herrings, Loaches

Total 53 word senses

• 丸太 (Noun) during the Edo period, derogatory term for an unlicensed prostitute dressed as a Buddhist nun as a form of disguise from the authorities (from the way the shaven head looks a bit like a debarked log, and from the way that they both roll around)
• 斉魚 (Noun) Japanese grenadier anchovy, Coilia nasus
• 泥鰌 (Noun) Misgurnus anguillicaudatus: the pond loach, weather loach, or weatherfish
• 源五郎鮒 (Noun) Carassius cuvieri the Japanese crucian carp or white crucian carp, a type of 鮒 (funa, “crucian carp”), an edible freshwater ray-finned fish related to carp and goldfish and endemic to Lake Biwa in Japan
• 煮頃鮒 (Noun) nigorobuna (Carassius auratus grandoculis), a type of 鮒 (funa, “crucian carp”), an edible freshwater ray-finned fish related to carp and goldfish, endemic to Lake Biwa in Japan
• 片口鰯 (Noun) a Japanese anchovy (Engraulis japonicus)
• 田平子 (Noun) Synonym of 鰱 (tanago, “Acheilognathus melanogaster”)
• 痺鰻 (Noun) electric eel
• 白子 (Noun) milt, soft roe
• 白子 (Noun) whitebait (young fish of certain species), especially the young of sardines
• 白魚 (Noun) icefish, noodlefish, fish in the family Salangidae
• 白鰱 (Noun) silver carp, Hypophthalmichthys molitrix
• 紫 (Noun) Short for 紫色 (murasaki-iro): the color purple
• 紫 (Noun) Synonym of 鰯 (iwashi): a sardine, especially the Japanese pilchard, Sardinops sagax
• 紫 (Proper name) Short for 紫式部 (Murasaki Shikibu): Heian-period novelist and lady-in-waiting
• 紫 (Proper name) a female given name
• 紫 (Proper name) a female given name
• 義義 (Noun) Tachysurus nudiceps, a species of catfish.
• 草魚 (Noun) grass carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella
• 薔薇鱮 (Noun) rosy bitterling (Rhodeus ocellatus)
• 蘭鋳 (Noun) a ranchu
• 虱目魚 (Noun) milkfish, Chanos chanos
• 衣被 (Noun) the practice in the Heian period where upper-class women would cover their faces with their clothing when they went out; the type of headdress; the women referred to
• 衣被 (Noun) sardine
• 衣被 (Noun) an autumn dish and sake accompaniment consisting of small steamed taro potatoes
• 赤腹 (Noun) Short for 赤腹井守 (akahara imori, “Japanese fire-bellied newt”). (Cynops pyrrhogaster)
• 金魚 (Noun) a goldfish
• 鎌柄 (Noun) oriental photinia, Pourthiaea villosa
• 電気鰻 (Noun) electric eel, Electrophorus electricus
• 青魚 (Noun) general term for a blue backed fish
• 青魚 (Noun) black carp, Mylopharyngodon piceus
• 鯉 (Noun) carp, specifically, the common carp (Cyprinus carpio)
• 鯎 (Noun) the Japanese dace, also known as the big-scaled redfin: Tribolodon hakonensis, an edible fish in family Cyprinidae
• 鯰 (Character) a catfish
• 鰊 (Character) herring
• 鰊 (Noun) Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii)
• 鰊 (Noun) Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii)
• 鰣 (Character) Reeves' shad (Tenualosa reevesii)
• 鰣魚 (Noun) Reeves' shad, Tenualosa reevesii
• 鰯 (Character) sardine
• 鰯 (Noun) a pilchard (especially a Japanese pilchard) (Sardinops melanostictus)
• 鰯 (Noun) Japanese sardine
• 鰯 (Noun) on the night of the Setsubun, a pilchard is placed at the entrance along with a 柊 (hīragi, “Osmanthus heterophyllus”) to ward off evil spirits
• 鰱 (Character) fish of genus Hypophthalmichthys
• 鰱魚 (Noun) fish of the genus Hypophthalmichthys
• 鰶 (Character) dotted gizzard shad (Konosirus punctatus)
• 鰶 (Noun) dotted gizzard shad, Konosirus punctatus
• 黍魚子 (Noun) silver-stripe round herring, blue sprat, kibinago; a small marine fish, Spratelloides gracilis
• 黒鰱 (Noun) bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis)
• ふな (Noun) 鮒, 鯽: crucian carp, any fish of the genus Carassius
• ピラニア (Noun) a piranha
• ヨーロッパ鮒 (Noun) crucian carp, Carassius carassius
• ヨーロッパ鱮 (Noun) European bitterling, Rhodeus amarus

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