Where does “小頭鼠海豚” come from?

小頭鼠海豚 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 鼠海豚, from Japanese 鼠, from Japanese nezumi.

小頭鼠海豚 (Japanese): a vaquita

Definitions

  1. a vaquita

Ancestry of “小頭鼠海豚”, step by step

小頭鼠海豚 traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 鼠海豚

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese鼠海豚a harbour porpoise
2Japanese鼠a mouse or a rat; general term for members of...
3Japanesenezumi—

via Japanese 小

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese小smallness; small size, small; Short for 小の月;...
2Old Japaneseささ—

via Japanese 頭

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese頭head; the fontanelle part of the skull; the head...
2Japaneseど-super-
Every word from Japanese nezumi →Every word from Japanese 鼠 →Every word from Japanese 鼠海豚 →