maki
cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, formed around strips of vegetable or raw fish into a cylindrical seaweed-wrapped roll that is sliced into bite-size pieces.
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Origin of maki
1- Sometimes ma·ki-zu·shi [mah-kee-zoo-shee] /ˈmɑ kiˈzu ʃi/ .
- See also sushi.
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How to use maki in a sentence
I wish Nature would give me a few years maki here and now, I want to stay here longer.
A Journal from Japan | Marie Carmichael StopesHe used abusive and improper language— Dia ber-maki-maki dengan yang tapatut.
A Manual of the Malay language | William Edward MaxwellAmong the animals knocked over, there was a gigantic bat, or flying maki (Pterops), the native name of which is Daiahm.
Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II | Karl Ritter von ScherzerIn Formosa, Tetrastichus hagenowii was an important parasite of cockroach eggs (maki, 1937).
The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches | Louis M. RothThe unfortunate Sheikh maki had been wounded in the leg, and had only escaped death by a miracle.
Fire and Sword in the Sudan | Rudolf C. Slatin
British Dictionary definitions for maki
/ (ˈmækɪ) /
(in Japanese cuisine) a small segment cut from a long roll of cold rice and various other ingredients wrapped in a sheet of seaweed
Origin of maki
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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