mitsumame
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Japanese dessert made of small cubes of agar jelly, served in a bowl with boiled red field peas (or sometimes azuki beans), often gyūhi, shiratama dango and a variety of fruits such as peach slices, mikan, pieces of pineapples, and cherries, usually coming with a small pot of kuromitsu, which one pours onto the jelly before eating.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Shun set a small bowl of mitsumame, a cold gelatin dessert with syrup and mandarin oranges, in front of her."
- "Konjac has been used to make noodles (shiritaki noodles) and heat-stable gels such as mitsumame, a fruit dessert."
- "The dessert is mitsumame with ice cream, cut fruit and diced kanten in syrup."
- "Cream mitsumame ($4.99) contains ice cream and a Japanese-style canned fruit cocktail with a few beans in sugar syrup."
- "Desserts include mitsumame ($6.50) — resilient cubes of unflavoured gelatin with vanilla ice cream and fruit cocktail — as well as a crème brûlée trio ($9)."
- "In Asia, agar is used in many traditional dishes, such as red bean jelly, tokoroten noodles and mitsumame."
Etymology
From Japanese みつまめ (mitsumame).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: みつまめ