...The Chinese name is Hiren. The English name cockroach is an anglicized version of the Spanish word cucaracha, and a similar variant is asparagus being used as sparrow grass. In America, the German cockroach is called the Croton bug, but Croton is the name of the river that became the source of water for New York City in 1842, and the cockroaches began to increase in number around the time the river was created, hence the name. *Some of the terminology that mentions "cockroach" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…漢名は蜚蠊(ひれん)。英名コックローチcockroachはスペイン語のクカラチャcucarachaが英語化したもので,同様の変形にはアスパラガスasparagusがスパロー・グラスsparrow grassとして用いられている例などがある。アメリカではチャバネゴキブリをクロトン・バッグcroton bugというが,クロトンは1842年ニューヨーク市の水源となった川の名で,この水源ができたころからゴキブリが増えたのでこの名がある。… ※「cockroach」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
...H. Coing and H. Welzel are among those who spe...
The name of the German state that began with Otto...
…At this time, the penetration of Aryan culture i...
A town in Katta County, southern Miyagi Prefecture...
An insect of the Hymenoptera family Ichneumonidae....
A bureaucrat in the early Meiji period. Born on D...
Occult: Mysterious or supernatural. Also, the art ...
Aluminium hydroxide. Chemical formula: Al(OH) 3 ,...
A field of engineering that focuses on control eng...
A device that artificially induces breathing by pu...
…These schools of thought assert that effects do ...
A village in Ono County, eastern Fukui Prefecture....
〘 noun 〙 In acrobatics, lifting heavy objects or p...
Pu. An element with atomic number 94. An artifici...
…Uruguayan urban guerrilla organization. Founded ...