Where does “ステラー海牛” come from?

ステラー海牛 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 海牛, from Japanese 牛, from Middle Chinese 牛.

ステラー海牛 (Japanese): a Steller's sea cow

Definitions

  1. a Steller's sea cow

Ancestry of “ステラー海牛”, step by step

ステラー海牛 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 海牛

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese海牛a sea slug, a nudibranch
2Japanese牛cow, bull, ox, cattle; beef; Ox
3Middle Chinese牛—

via English Steller's sea cow

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishSteller's sea cowHydrodamalis gigas, an extinct herbivorous marine...
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