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mizuna

mizuna noun: one of several tangy green vegetables used in Japanese cuisine, usually Brassica rapa var. nipposinica.

mizuna: one of several tangy green vegetables used in Japanese cuisine, usually Brassica rapa var....
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Noun

mizuna (usually uncountable, plural mizunas)

  1. (usually) One of several tangy green vegetables used in Japanese cuisine, usually Brassica rapa var. nipposinica
    • His cold sesame chicken seasoned with chili is finely shredded and served in carefully wrought clusters around a salad of mizuna.2007 June 20, Florence Fabricant, “From a Japanese Chef, Chinese, but Not Takeout”, in New York Times

Forms of mizuna

pluralmizunas

Origin of mizuna

Borrowed from Japanese 水菜.

Words that rhyme with mizuna

5 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about mizuna

What does mizuna mean?
Mizuna means one of several tangy green vegetables used in Japanese cuisine, usually Brassica rapa var. nipposinica.
What part of speech is mizuna?
Mizuna is a noun.
What is the plural of mizuna?
The plural of mizuna is mizunas.

Words near mizuna in the dictionary

  1. Mizuguchis
  2. mizuhiki
  3. mizuhiki-maku
  4. Mizuho
  5. Mizumoto
  6. mizuna
  7. mizunas
  8. Mizuno
  9. Mizunos
  10. Mizunuma
  11. Mizushima

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