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ホルストガエル

also: ホルストがえる

Meanings

1

noun

Holst's frog

usually written using kana alone

A specific frog species (Rana holsti) endemic to Japan; primarily a biological term.

ホルストガエルは沖おき縄なわ県けんの固こ有ゆう種しゅです。
Holst's frog is an endemic species of Okinawa Prefecture.

Written forms

ホルストがえる
Hiragana variant of the katakana spelling; less common but still encountered.
ホルスト蛙がえる
Kanji spelling using 蛙 for 'frog'; rare and not the usual way to write this species name.

Kanji

蛙frog

Etymology

Named after the Danish zoologist P. Holst; the Japanese name is a direct borrowing of the scientific name Rana holsti.