noun
Meguro (special ward of Tokyo)
Only with reading めぐろ
Proper noun referring to Meguro City, one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo.
目黒区は東京の特別区の一つです。
Meguro is one of the special wards of Tokyo.
noun
Bonin white-eye (Apalopteron familiare)
A small bird endemic to the Bonin Islands. Usually written in kana as めぐろ.
The Bonin white-eye is a bird that lives only on the Bonin Islands.
The place name Meguro likely derives from a historical reference to a dark-eyed statue or a geographical feature, but the exact origin is uncertain. The bird name comes from the Japanese word for 'black eye', referring to the dark patch around its eye.