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unagi

unagi noun: a type of sushi made from freshwater eel.

unagi: a type of sushi made from freshwater eel
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Noun

unagi (uncountable)

  1. A type of sushi made from freshwater eel.

Origin of unagi

Borrowed from Japanese 鰻 (unagi, “eel”).

Questions about unagi

What does unagi mean?
Unagi means a type of sushi made from freshwater eel.
What part of speech is unagi?
Unagi is a noun.

Words near unagi in the dictionary

  1. unaggressively
  2. unaggressiveness
  3. unaggrieved
  4. unaggro
  5. unaghast
  6. unagi
  7. unagile
  8. unagility
  9. unaging
  10. unagitated
  11. unagitatedly

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