mygaleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪɡəli/

名詞

mygale (複数形 mygales)

1. (obsolete) A shrew or ferret. [14th–19th]
   • 1635, Holy Bible (Douay), Leviticus II.29–30:

     These also shal be reputed among polluted things, of al that moue vpon the earth, the weesel and the mouse and the crocadile, euerie one according to their kinde, the migale and the camelean […] .

2. Any of the former genus Mygale of large, hairy trapdoor spiders with four lungs and four spinnerets, now distributed in Mygalomorphae. [from 19th c.]
   • 1865, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, editor, Once A Week, volume XII:

     The Mygales are the most interesting creatures, and are called Mason spiders because they build their own houses in a very remarkable manner.

アナグラム

• -megaly, gamely, gleamy