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すっぽん、スッポン
Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis); soft-shelled turtle (Trionychidae)
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月と鼈

月とすっぽん
exp
つきとすっぽん
like chalk and cheese (superficially similar, but completely different) (the moon and a turtle shell are both round, but they are otherwise completely different); like day and night; like the difference between heaven and hell
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鼈甲

べっ甲
べっこう
tortoiseshell (of the hawksbill turtle); bekko; (in Chinese medicine) tortoiseshell (esp. of the Chinese soft-shelled turtle)
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鼈甲色

べっこういろ
amber (colour, color)
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べっこう飴

鼈甲飴
べっこうあめ
hard candy; candy suckers molded on a griddle; tortoise-shell candy
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田鼈

水爬虫
たがめ、タガメ
Lethocerus deyrollei (species of giant water bug)
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膝皿貝

火皿貝、石鼈、爺が背
ひざらがい、じいがせ、ヒザラガイ
chiton (any marine mollusk of the class Polyplacophora); sea cradle; Japanese chiton (Acanthopleura japonica)
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鼈甲細工

べっこうざいく
article of tortoise shell; tortoiseshell work
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鼈甲蜂

べっこうばち
spider wasp; pompilid
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鼈茸

すっぽんたけ、スッポンタケ
common stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus)