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misos

misos is the plural of miso.

Meaning of miso

Noun

miso (usually uncountable, plural misos)

  1. (usually) A thick paste made by fermentation of soybeans with the mold Aspergillus oryzae, used in making soups and sauces.
    • Substances float around each other until you crush them all with a blender. Add a bit of white miso, lemon juice, truffle oil, chives: survey your wreckage, which will be the wrong colour (cream with a hint of grey) and the wrong consistency (gluey).2018 July 19, Zoe Williams, “Can ditching meat and dairy open up new taste sensations? My week as a foodie vegan”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2022

Questions about misos

What is misos the plural of?
Misos is the plural of miso.

Words near misos in the dictionary

  1. misorientation
  2. misorientations
  3. misoriented
  4. misorienting
  5. misorients
  6. misos
  7. misoscale
  8. misoshiru
  9. misosopher
  10. misosophers
  11. misosophical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misos (page history and authors); miso (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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