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As you might know, Arkady Strugatsky was by his profession a translator from Japanese. He has published in Russian his translations of many Japanese stories, some modern (i.e. by Kobo Abe), some classic, like "The Tail of the Heike"). No wonder that there are many japanese words to be found in his fiction.

Could you please tell, what does the word "uriboshi" or "uribosi" mean? This is best English approximation of the Russian word Arkady Strugatsky used in one of his books. It can be found in the same sentence with "tako", "ika" and "ibogani", which are all can be found on the web and (if I understand right) are japanese for "octopus", "squid" and some type of a "crab". based on that I'd expect that by "uriboshi" was meant some sea creature, but I can't find the word anywhere.

I had ones got excellent help at this forum from Tobberoth with another word I've found in Strugatsky brothers SciFi: "rumata", for which I am very grateful, and I hope that I might get some clues in this case too.