kitten

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈkɪtən/

Noun

colloquial

A young cat, especially before sexual maturity (reached at about seven months). / A young rabbit, rat, hedgehog, squirrel, fox, beaver, badger, etc. / A moth of the genus Furcula.

Japanese Meaning

成熟する前の若い猫、すなわち子猫 / 若いウサギ、ネズミ、ハリネズミ、リス、キツネ、ビーバー、アナグマなどの幼い個体 / Furcula属に属する蛾

What is this buttons?

The kitten chased the ribbon across the sunlit floor all afternoon.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その子猫は午後中、日の当たる床の上でリボンを追いかけていた。

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Sense（1）

A young cat, especially before sexual maturity (reached at about seven months).

It was supposed to have happened thus: the cat had young kittens, and frequently carried them mice, and other animals its prey, and among the rest a young rat: the kittens, not being hungry, played with it, and when the cat came to give suck to the kittens, the rat likewise sucked her.

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Sense（2）

A young rabbit, rat, hedgehog, squirrel, fox, beaver, badger, etc.

The first move at beaver raising in North Dakota had its starting in the fall of 1874, when a kitten beaver was taken out of Mandan Lake by the writer and given to a little Indian girl who then lived with her guardians at Pretty Point near the present village of Sanger, Oliver county.

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Sense（3）

A moth of the genus Furcula.

Two of these formed cocoons in a manner I have not seen before. They were supplied when full-grown with plenty of rotten willow wood, which I have always found a most suitable material for insects using bark or old wood in forming cocoons such as the kittens, Apatele alni, etc., and most made the usual cycle of cocoons on it.

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