烏帽子鳥

Japanese

烏帽子鳥 (eboshidori): a pair of Knysna turacos, showing the distinctive head plumage.
Kanji in this term
烏 帽 子 鳥
え
Jinmeiyō		 ぼう > ぼ
Grade: S		 し
Grade: 1		 とり > どり
Grade: 2
Irregular

Etymology

Compound of 烏帽子 (eboshi, “an ancient style of hat worn by Japanese nobility”) +‎ 鳥 (tori, “bird”), from the way that the bird's head plumage resembles the shape of the eboshi hat. The tori changes to dori as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
    • IPA(key): [e̞bo̞ɕido̞ɾʲi]

Noun

烏帽子鳥 (hiragana えぼしどり, katakana エボシドリ, rōmaji eboshidori)

  1. (in general) a turaco (any bird of family Musophagidae)
  2. (more specifically) a Knysna turaco (Tauraco corythaix)

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as エボシドリ.

Further reading

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