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放散虫軟泥 (ほうさんちゅうなんでい) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

放ほう散さん虫ちゅう軟なん泥でい

Meanings

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noun

radiolarian ooze

A deep-sea sediment composed mainly of the siliceous skeletons of radiolarians. Used in oceanography and geology.

放ほう散さん虫ちゅう軟なん泥でいは、主おもに太たい平へい洋ようの深しん海かい底ていに分ぶん布ぷしている。
Radiolarian ooze is distributed mainly on the deep-sea floor of the Pacific Ocean.
この地ち域いきの海かい底ていには放ほう散さん虫ちゅう軟なん泥でいが厚あつく堆たい積せきしている。
Radiolarian ooze is thickly deposited on the seafloor in this region.

Kanji

放set free, release, fire
散scatter, disperse, spend
虫insect, bug, temper
軟

soft

泥mud, mire, adhere to

Similar words

放ほう散さん虫ちゅう
Refers to the organism itself (radiolarian), while 放散虫軟泥 is the sediment formed from their remains.
軟なん泥でい
General term for ooze (fine-grained deep-sea sediment); 放散虫軟泥 specifies the type composed of radiolarian tests.

Etymology

Compound of 放散虫 (radiolarian) and 軟泥 (ooze). The term is a direct translation of the English 'radiolarian ooze', used in marine geology.