subgum
[ suhb-guhm ]
/ ˈsʌbˈgʌm /
adjective Chinese or Chinese-American Cookery.
prepared with mixed vegetables, as with water chestnuts, mushrooms, and bean sprouts.
Words nearby subgum
subglacial, subglossal, subgrade, subgroup, subgrundation, subgum, subha, subhalide, subharmonic, subhead, subheading
Origin of subgum
1935–40; < dialectal Chinese (Guangdong) sahp-gám, akin to Chinese shíjǐn literally, ten brocades
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