No.270Gen 3 (Hoenn)
Lotad in Japanese
ハスボー
Hasubō
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ハha
スsu
ボbo
ーlong vowel
💡 ー is a long-vowel mark: it stretches the vowel before it (in romaji it is shown with a bar, like ō).
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📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
Its leaf grew too large for it to live on land. That is how it began to live floating in the water.葉が大きくなりすぎて陸上で生きられなくなった。それで水に浮かんで暮らすようになった。
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