Where does “鋏虫目” come from?

鋏虫目 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 鋏虫, from Japanese 鋏, from Japanese 鋏む — cut off.

鋏虫目 (Japanese): Dermaptera

Definitions

  1. Dermaptera

Ancestry of “鋏虫目”, step by step

鋏虫目 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 鋏虫

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese鋏虫earwig
2Japanese鋏a scissors; pincers or claws as found on a crab,...
3Japanese鋏むcut off

via Japanese 目

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese目an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
2Middle Chinese目—
Every word from Japanese 鋏む →Every word from Japanese 鋏 →Every word from Japanese 鋏虫 →