wakamen.
A brown seaweed, Undaria pinnatifida, used in China and Japan as food or (esp. in dried form) as a cooking ingredient.
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1950 V. J. Chapman Seaweeds vii. 177 The dried seaweed can..be cut up into short lengths and sold as ‘Kizami-wakame’ or wakame chips.
1969 M. Abehsera Zen Macrobiotic Cooking 66 After the wakame is soaked and chopped, cook in a very small amount of lemon juice with a bit of water.
1982 Nuclear News Feb. 60/3 Japco also agreed to buy 30 tonnes of wakame seaweed from the Association for 200 million yen ($667 000).
1990 Healthy Eating Feb.–Mar. 9/1 Seaweed, the second super food of Japan, comes in several varieties: wakame (curly and dried), hijiki.., nori..and kombu.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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