edamame

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˌɛdəˈmɑːmeɪ/

Definition of edamame

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Fresh green soybeans boiled as a vegetable.
    “When Americans started eating more sushi in the 1980s, edamame also became more popular. More than 95 percent of the edamame consumed in the US comes from China, but domestic production of the edible green soybean is on the rise.”

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Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 枝(えだ)豆(まめ) (edamame, literally “stem beans”).

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