姥

Meaning

姥 centers on an elderly woman, often with a nuance of a grandmotherly or aged female figure.

• 姥うば

  elderly woman

• 山姥やまうば

  mountain witch; yamauba

• 姥彼岸うばひがん

  double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula)

• 姥捨てうばすて

  practice of abandoning old people, usu. women

• 姥捨て山うばすてやま

  mountain where old people were abandoned (according to legend)

• 姥桜うばざくら

  faded beauty

• 姥烏帽子貝おばえぼしがい

  Inversidens brandti (species of freshwater mussel)

• 姥百合うばゆり

  uba lily (Cardiocrinum cordatum)

• 姥目樫うばめがし

  ubame oak (Quercus phillyraeoides)

• 姥貝うばがい

  Sakhalin surf clam (Pseudocardium sachalinense)

• 姥魚うばうお

  Aspasma minima (species of clingfish)

• 高砂の尉と姥たかさごのじょうとうば

  (Japanese) Darby and Joan

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