べっこう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of べっこう – see the following entries.
【鼈甲】
[noun] tortoiseshell, shell of hawksbill turtle
[noun] shell of softshell turtle
[noun] synonym of 張形 (harikata, “dildo”) (due to the highest quality ones historically being made of tortoiseshell)
【別項】
[noun] separate paragraph, another section
(This term, べっこう (bekkō), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
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