むし
Meanings
Noun
1. insect; bug; cricket; moth
2. worm; roundworm
3. one's emotions; one's feelings
4. nervousness; fretfulness
5. person devoted to one thing; single-minded person
6. valve core
7. mushi (type of game played with a stripped deck)
Kanji used
insect
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (212 in total)
① 感情が傷つき易く、泣き易い人。その性質。
hornworm (caterpillar of a hawk moth); (hairless) caterpillar
worm; insect
① はじらみの別称。② はありの別称。
roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides); mawworm; (metaphor for) location of one's feelings or sentiments; (metaphor for) empty stomach; feeling of hunger
① 蝶や蛾の幼虫で、棘や毛で覆われているものの俗称。夏の季語。② 嫌われ者の喩え。
peanut worm (any worm of phylum Sipuncula)
faint breath; dying whisper; at death's door
① 蝿の幼虫。② 人をののしる言葉。
undesirable lover (boyfriend, girlfriend); passion; temper; irritability
singing of insects (esp. in autumn); sound of insects
someone who gets in the way without serving any useful purpose; fly in the ointment; buttinsky; third wheel
① コウチュウ目コガネムシ科カブトムシ亜科の昆虫の総称。② コウチュウ目コガネムシ科カブトムシ亜科に属する昆虫で、日本産カブトムシの通称。
poisonous insect
calls and sounds made by insects
① 虫が食うこと。虫に食われたものや虫に食われたあと。② 白磁の皿や鉢などの縁に見られる小さな釉が剝落したあと。③ 老い鶯。残鶯。④ スズメ目ウグイス科ムシクイ類に属する鳥の総称。
insecticide; insect repellent
① バッタ目コオロギ科の昆虫の一種。体長は17〜25mm、体色は黒褐色で一部が白い。リーンリーンと鳴く。② まつむしの古称。
insect cage
① 良くない出来事が起こりそうであると感じること。
selfish; asking too much
① 蝿の幼虫。② 人をののしる言葉。
① 足白癬の俗称。② カメムシ目ミズムシ科に属する水生昆虫の総称。学名:Corixidae。③ ワラジムシ目ミズムシ亜ミズムシ科ミズムシ属に属する甲殻類の一種。学名:Asellus hilgendorfi
① 小さい物を見るためのレンズがはめ込まれた道具。② 俗に、序の口の力士。
insect catching; bug catching
bookworm; bibliophile; bibliophage
insecticide; insect repellent
snake in one's bosom; treacherous friend
① 蝶、蛾の幼虫で長毛がなく体が緑色のものの総称。② あおごかいの別称。
small insect; midge; vermicule
① コウチュウ目テントウムシ科の昆虫の総称。
① ミノガ科に属する蛾の幼虫。特に大蓑蛾の幼虫を指す。葉や小枝を糸で綴った、蓑のような巣を作る。雌は成虫になっても蓑の中に住む。鬼の子。秋の季語。
to become verminous; to be infested with insects; to begin to keep bad company; to have an (unfavorable, unfavourable) lover
rushing to one's doom; (like a) moth flying into the flame
insect cage
scarabaeid beetle grub; any insect (or worm, etc.) that lives in soil
① 【マツムシ、松虫】バッタ目コオロギ科の昆虫の一種。体長は19〜33mm、体色は淡褐色。チンチロリンと清澄な鳴き声を聞かせる。② すずむしの古称。
① コウチュウ目テントウムシ科の昆虫の総称。
① コウチュウ目タマムシ科の甲虫の総称。学名:Buprestidae。夏の季語。② 語義1のうち、やまとたまむしの別称。③ 「玉虫色」の略。
bed bug (Cimex lectularius); bedbug
dung beetle; gold beetle; goldbug; maggots in faeces (feces)
selfish; asking too much
money loser; high-cost, low-return project
① コウチュウ目コガネムシ科カブトムシ亜科の昆虫の総称。② コウチュウ目コガネムシ科カブトムシ亜科に属する昆虫で、日本産カブトムシの通称。
① 蝿の幼虫。② 人をののしる言葉。
to control one's temper
aphid; plant louse; cockroach; Japanese house bat (Pipistrellus abramus); hanger-on; parasite
caterpillar fungus (esp. Cordyceps sinensis)
inchworm; measuring worm; looper (caterpillar)
to forebode; to have a presentiment
to become verminous; to be infested with insects; to begin to keep bad company; to have an (unfavorable, unfavourable) lover
① 小さい物を見るためのレンズがはめ込まれた道具。② 俗に、序の口の力士。
① 雪国において晩秋から初冬ごろにかけて発生する綿虫の俗称。② 雪国の早春の積雪上で活動するとびむし、せっけいかわげら、ゆきががんぼなどの種々の昆虫の俗称。
inchworm; measuring worm; looper (caterpillar)
① コウチュウ目コガネムシ科カブトムシ亜科の昆虫の総称。② コウチュウ目コガネムシ科カブトムシ亜科に属する昆虫で、日本産カブトムシの通称。
pillbug; pill bug; woodlouse; sowbug; sow bug; slater
insect catching; bug catching
① 内服して寄生虫を殺虫したり体外へ排出する薬。駆虫剤。駆虫薬。
summer insect; summer insects
some prefer nettles; there's no accounting for taste; every man to his taste
insect bite; bug bite; sting
scarabaeid beetle; Mimela splendens (metallic-green scarabaeid beetle)
pin (esp. for mounting insects); setting pin
selfish; asking too much
aquatic insect larva (esp. of caddisflies, mayflies, etc.)
bur (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes); burr
caterpillar (esp. hairless); person with scanty supply of clothes
to be itching to do something
tread on a worm and it will turn; even a tiny bug will defend itself; even the weakest and smallest beings have their own wills, so do not make light of them
worm; insect
hornworm (caterpillar of a hawk moth); (hairless) caterpillar
① 小さい物を見るためのレンズがはめ込まれた道具。② 俗に、序の口の力士。
torch procession to drive away crop-eating insects
workaholic; person who is totally devoted to his work
butterfly net
① 漢字の部首「⾍」が偏である場合の呼称。
nervous weakness
wood louse; wood lice; slater
convulsions (in a child); nervousness; short-temperedness; bug thought to cause children's diseases
① バッタ目キリギリス科の昆虫。体色は緑色または褐色で、翅は幅広い。雄はガチャガチャと鳴く。
convulsions (in a child); nervousness; short-temperedness; bug thought to cause children's diseases
cecidium; gall
moss animal (any animal of phylum Bryozoa)
bur (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes); burr
to have a stomach ache; to get on one's nerves; to cause offence
scarabaeid beetle; Mimela splendens (metallic-green scarabaeid beetle)
longhorn beetle grub
heartburn; strong sense of disgust
① コウチュウ目カミキリムシ科の昆虫の総称。
cecidium; gall
harvestman; daddy longlegs (arachnid of order Opiliones)
aphid; plant louse; cockroach; Japanese house bat (Pipistrellus abramus); hanger-on; parasite
dobsonfly or stonefly larva
leaf insect (esp. species Phyllium pulchrifolium)
① コウチュウ目オサムシ科オサムシ亜科に属する甲虫の総称
① 日本最古とされる拳遊び。じゃんけんの原型。
insect cage
some prefer nettles; there's no accounting for taste; every man to his taste
diligent student; drudge; swot
to sacrifice something small in order to save something great; to lose a leg to save one's life; to kill a small bug and help a large one
① チョウ目ヤガ科またはコウチュウ目コガネムシ科の幼虫の内、土中にいて農作物、花、苗木などの作物の根際をかみ切る害虫の総称。蕪夜蛾、甘藍夜蛾などの夜蛾、すじこがね、こふきこがねなどのこがねむしの幼虫。地虫。
bloodworm (Halla okadai, species of eunicid worm used as fishing bait); red mite (Trombicula akamushi); chigger mite; harvest mite
① バッタ目キリギリス科の昆虫。体色は緑色または褐色で、翅は幅広い。雄はガチャガチャと鳴く。
ringworm (of the body); tinea corporis
first spring thunderstorm of the year
to sacrifice something small in order to save something great; to lose a leg to save one's life; (lit.) to kill a small bug and save a large one
incantation to rid a child of insects traditionally believed to cause disease; charm to cure colic, tantrums, etc.
① コウチュウ目コガネムシ科カブトムシ亜科の昆虫の総称。② コウチュウ目コガネムシ科カブトムシ亜科に属する昆虫で、日本産カブトムシの通称。
someone who gets in the way without serving any useful purpose; fly in the ointment; buttinsky; third wheel
① カメムシ目カメムシ亜目に属するカメムシ科などの陸生昆虫の総称。
ground beetle; carabid (esp. of superfamily Caraboidea, but excluding subfamily Carabinae); Anisodactylus signatus (species of ground beetle)
① コウチュウ目カミキリムシ科の昆虫の総称。
euglena (freshwater flagellate)
convulsions (in a child); nervousness; short-temperedness; bug thought to cause children's diseases
bur (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes); burr
stinky bug (esp. the bombardier beetle); stink bug
horse botfly larva
weevil; snout beetle
some prefer nettles; there's no accounting for taste; every man to his taste
some prefer nettles; there's no accounting for taste; every man to his taste
pyralid larva; borer
butterfly net
any horsehair worm of class Gordioidea; gordian worm (of class Gordioidea); hair worm (of class Gordioidea); wireworm (click beetle larva)
springtail (wingless insect of the order Collembola)
cecidium; gall
to have a stomach ache; to get on one's nerves; to cause offence
caddis worm; caddis-worm (caddisfly larva)
① 甲虫目カツオブシ科に属する甲虫の総称。学名:Dermestidae。
bark beetle (Scolytidae spp.); gribble (Limnoria lignorum)
① チョウ目ヤガ科またはコウチュウ目コガネムシ科の幼虫の内、土中にいて農作物、花、苗木などの作物の根際をかみ切る害虫の総称。蕪夜蛾、甘藍夜蛾などの夜蛾、すじこがね、こふきこがねなどのこがねむしの幼虫。地虫。
cutworm; army worm
① きりぎりすの別称。
① 捕まえると異臭を放つ虫。特にごみむし。別名、へっぴりむし。へこきむし。
① 捕まえると異臭を放つ虫。特にごみむし。別名、へっぴりむし。へこきむし。
stinky bug (esp. the bombardier beetle); stink bug
bombardier beetle (esp. species Pheropsophus jessoensis); stink bug
bur (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes); burr
bell animalcule (insect)
Protura (order of wingless insects)
children's medicine for nervousness; snack for an empty stomach
true bristletail (any insect of order Thysanura, esp. of family Lepismatidae)
flatworm; flat worm; flat bark beetle
nymph (immature form of an insect)
① やごの別名
mythical spirit residing in a person's body that generates a desire to drink (also said to turn water into alcohol)
true bristletail (any insect of order Thysanura, esp. of family Lepismatidae)
valve rubber
someone who curls up under a kotatsu all winter; kotatsu bug; kotatsu snail
Bothrogonia ferruginea (species of leafhopper)
Sick Girl (Masters of Horror)
devotee of the arts
xenoturbellan (either of two species of worm-like basal deuterostomes)
mushifuda; stripped hanafuda deck consisting of 40 cards
someone who curls up under a kotatsu all winter; kotatsu bug; kotatsu snail
hunchback; humpback; crookback
Paramecium spp. (esp. Paramecium caudatum)
① コウチュウ目ハムシ科に属する甲虫の総称。学名:Chrysomelidae。
① カメムシ目カイガラムシ上科に属する昆虫の総称。学名:Coccoidea。
① はさみむしの学術的表記。
cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus)
Marphysa sanguinea (species of eunicid worm)
① 緩歩動物の別称。
① カメムシ目カメムシ亜目に属するカメムシ科などの陸生昆虫の総称。
① 甲虫目コメツキムシ科に属する甲虫の総称。学名:Elateridae。
rhizocephala (parasitic barnacles)
Chinese wax scale insect (Ericerus pela)
Chinese wax scale insect (Ericerus pela)
① 紐形動物門に属する動物の総称。紐形動物。
Chinese wax scale insect (Ericerus pela)
Chinese wax scale insect (Ericerus pela)
Chinese wax scale insect (Ericerus pela)
Chinese wax scale insect (Ericerus pela)
acorn worm (any hemichordate of class Enteropneusta)
① 節足動物門鋏角亜門クモ綱カニムシ目に属する蜘蛛形類の総称。学名:Pseudoscorpionida。
Notonecta triguttata (species of backswimmer)
lace bug (any insect of family Tingidae)
ghost walker (beetle) (Mormolyce phyllodes); violin beetle
tongue worm (any worm of phylum Pentastomida)
vestimentiferan (any tube worm of order Vestimentifera)
arrow worm (any worm of phylum Chaetognatha)
clearwing moth larva
ghost walker (beetle) (Mormolyce phyllodes); violin beetle
viburnum; Viburnum furcatum
proturan (any wingless insect of order Protura)
phoronid (any wormlike animal of phylum Phoronida)
velvet worm (Onychophora)
schizomid (any arachnid of order Schizomida)
beard worm (any worm of phylum Pogonophora)
wooly apple aphid (Eriosoma lanigerum)
clearwing moth larva
inocelliid snakefly (any insect of family Inocelliidae)
insect peddler (esp. fireflies and crickets)
hairy caterpillar
Examples (19 in total)
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