Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mekabu

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mek-abu
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Undaria pinnatifida, a sea plant native to Japan and Korea and invasive elsewhere; wakame; Asian kelp.

Uncountable

noun

Stems or thick leaves from near the stem of the plant, eaten as a vegetable.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"We previously reported that water extract of Mekabu, a kind of seaweed, induced apoptosis in a human breast cancer cell line."
"Mekabu is the flowering sprout of wakame. It has a strong, sweet, and creamy taste and is traditionally brewed into a tea or cooked in small amounts with other foods."
"Forget crispy fried nori or pliant hijiki: mekabu comes in a coating of—there's no other word for it—goo. As one chews, it starts to expand, until suffocation starts to seem like a real possibility."

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese メカブ (“thick wakame leaves”).

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: メカブ

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does mekabu mean?: Undaria pinnatifida, a sea plant native to Japan and Korea and invasive elsewhere; wakame; Asian kelp.
Where does mekabu come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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