wasabi
wasabi Lexical Profile
wasabi Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A pungent, bright green paste or condiment prepared from the grated stem of the wasabi plant (or commonly imitated with horseradish, mustard, and food coloring), traditionally served in Japanese cuisine alongside sushi and sashimi.
"She mixed a small dab of wasabi into her soy sauce before dipping the sushi roll."
The thick, knobby, green underground stem (rhizome) of the Japanese horseradish plant, prized as a culinary root vegetable that is finely grated to release its sharp, sinus-clearing heat.
"The chef grated fresh wasabi on a traditional sharkskin board right at the table."
A perennial herbaceous plant (Eutrema japonicum) of the mustard family Brassicaceae, native to cool mountain stream beds in Japan and cultivated for its pungent edible rhizomes and heart-shaped leaves.
"True wasabi requires cold, pristine running water and shaded mountain valleys to thrive."
• Rhymes for wasabi
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the early 20th century from Japanese 'wasabi' (山葵), historically attested in Old Japanese medical texts as 'wasapi'.
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