羽

Vocabulary (12)

• 羽軸

  うじく

  (ornithological) rachis

• 千羽鶴

  せんばづる

  (string of) many (traditionally 1000) paper cranes

• 羽衣虫喰

  はごろもむしくい

  American redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)

• 羽斑蚊

  はまだらか

  Anopheles (genus of mosquitoes)

• 黄立羽

  きたては

  Asian comma butterfly (Polygonia c-aureum)

• 鳥羽・伏見の戦い

  とばふしみのたたかい

  Battle of Toba-Fushimi (January 27-31, 1868)

• 衝羽根

  つくばね

  Buckleya lanceolata (species of parasitic deciduous shrub)

• 羽黒蜻蛉

  はぐろとんぼ

  Calopteryx atrata (species of damselfly)

• 烏揚羽

  からすあげは

  Chinese peacock (species of swallowtail butterfly, Papilio bianor)

• 麝香揚羽

  じゃこうあげは

  Chinese windmill (species of red-bodied swallowtail butterfly, Atrophaneura alcinous)

• 出羽

  いでわ

  Dewa (former province located in present-day Yamagata and Akita prefectures)

• 長崎揚羽

  ながさきあげは

  Great Mormon (species of swallowtail butterfly, Papilio memnon)