鮎掛

• IPA^(key):

鮎(あい)掛(かけ) or 鮎掛(アイカケ) • (aikake) 

1. a sculpin, any of several fish of the family Cottidae
   1. (regional, Mie and Wakayama prefectures) Japanese fluvial sculpin, Cottus pollux

      Synonyms: 鰍, 杜父魚 (kajika)

   2. (regional, Shizuoka, Nara, Shimane, Yamaguchi, Tokushima, and Kagoshima prefectures) fourspine sculpin, Cottus kazika

      Synonyms: 鎌切, 杜父魚 (kamakiri), アラレガコ (araregako)

• IPA^(key):

鮎(あゆ)掛(かけ) or 鮎掛(アユカケ) • (ayukake) 

1. fishing for sweetfish, catching ayu
2. the type of hook used to catch sweetfish

   Synonym: 鮎掛鉤 (ayukakebori)

3. sculpins (fish of the family Cottidae)
   1. Japanese fluvial sculpin (Cottus pollux)

      Synonyms: 鰍, 杜父魚 (kajika)

   2. fourspine sculpin (Cottus kazika)

      Synonyms: 鎌切, 杜父魚 (kamakiri), アラレガコ (araregako)

• 鮎(あゆ) (ayu, “sweetfish, Plecoglossus altivelis”)

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• “アラレガコ”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984