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| Processed by: | richwarm (2023-08-30 00:42:58 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 74244 - submitted by 'kbaiko' >> 螬 - only used in 蛴螬 - https://www.zdic.net/hans/%E8%9E%AC - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%9E%AC#Chinese I don't know what "mimela lucidula" is supposed to be. When I searched it I just got references to 螬 蛴螬 - https://www.zdic.net/hans/%E8%9B%B4%E8%9E%AC >金龟子的幼虫 - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%A0%90%E8%9E%AC#Chinese 蝤 - only used in 蝤蛴 - https://www.zdic.net/hans/%E8%9D%A4 - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%9D%A4#Chinese 蝤蛴 - https://www.zdic.net/hans/%E8%9D%A4%E8%9B%B4 > 天牛的幼虫 ---------------------------------------- Editor: Mimela is a genus of beetles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimela ... and Mimela lucidula is one of the species in that genus. As the following page indicates, Mimela lucidula is a synonym of Mimela splendens https://www.gbif.org/species/180466309 ... which has a Wikipedia page in several languages, including Japanese (but not English.) https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%82%AC%E3%83%8D%E3%83%A0%E3%82%B7 https://www.gbif.org/species/5991287 螬 may originally have meant "lava of Mimela lucidula [splendens]", but for practical purposes, it can be defined as a bound form that occurs only in 蠐螬, as you propose. The use of "the" in the phrase "larva of the scarab beetle" suggests that "scarab beetle" is a species. In fact, it's a family of many different species. Same story with "the longhorn beetle" — it's not a single species. Wp ~ "The longhorn beetles ... are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described." Dictionaries describe 蝤蛴 as "literary" or "archaic". |
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- 蠐 蛴 [qi2] /larva/maggot/ + 蠐 蛴 [qi2] /used in 蠐螬|蛴螬[qi2 cao2]/used in 蝤蠐|蝤蛴[qiu2 qi2]/ - 螬 螬 [cao2] /larva of Mimela lucidula/ + 螬 螬 [cao2] /used in 蠐螬|蛴螬[qi2 cao2]/ - 蠐螬 蛴螬 [qi2 cao2] /grub/CL:條|条[tiao2]/ # + 蠐螬 蛴螬 [qi2 cao2] /larva of the scarab beetle/CL:條|条[tiao2]/ - 蝤 蝤 [qiu2] /larva/grub/ + 蝤 蝤 [qiu2] /used in 蝤蠐|蝤蛴[qiu2 qi2]/ # + 蝤蠐 蝤蛴 [qiu2 qi2] /larva of the longhorn beetle/ # + 蠐螬 蛴螬 [qi2 cao2] /scarab beetle lava; grub/CL:條|条[tiao2]/ + 蝤蠐 蝤蛴 [qiu2 qi2] /(literary) longhorn beetle lava/ |