larb

¹ American  

[lahrb] / lɑrb /

noun

• larbs
  plural

1. a species of bearberry, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi.

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larb ² American  

[lahb, lahrb] / lɑb, lɑrb /

noun

• larb,
  plural
• larbs
  plural

1. a Southeast Asian minced meat salad, often served with sticky rice.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• larb
  plural
• larbs
  plural

Example Sentences

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larb

In Thailand and Laos, larb is considered a hot-weather dish.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2024

I’m thinking not only about places such as Mission Chinese in San Francisco, where chef Danny Bowien first started slinging kung pao pastrami and cumin lamb larb.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2021

A key ingredient in the famous Thai dish chicken larb, a chopped meat salad with various Thai seasonings, is rice flour, which is toasted and mixed with the meat to help bind the sauce.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2021

Bourguignon, larb and avgolemono are done and dusted, and the latter two end up being our dinner.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2021

But for the brave or culinarily brazen, Night + Market chef-owner Kris Yenbamroong has developed a Los Angeles River carp larb recipe, a hyper-local version of a traditional Thai meat salad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2020