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- Japanese · calque of海蛍
- English todaysea firefly
Calque of Japanese 海蛍 (umihotaru).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
sea firefly
Today it means: Vargula hilgendorfii, a small bioluminescent ostracod found in the waters off Japan. Full definition →
Japanese 海蛍