烏帽子鳥

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

• エボシドリ科 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja
• Turaco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Musophagidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies