mizuna

English

Pasta and salmon topped with mizuna

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 水菜.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -uːnə

Noun

mizuna (usually uncountable, plural mizunas)

1. One of several tangy green vegetables used in Japanese cuisine, usually Brassica rapa var. nipposinica
   • 2007 June 20, Florence Fabricant, “From a Japanese Chef, Chinese, but Not Takeout”, in New York Times‎:

     His cold sesame chicken seasoned with chili is finely shredded and served in carefully wrought clusters around a salad of mizuna.

Translations

tangy green vegetable

Finnish: mitsuna

See also

• mizuna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia