sushi
[ soo-shee ]
/ ˈsu ʃi /
noun Japanese Cooking.
cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, usually shaped into bite-size pieces and topped with raw seafood (nigiri), formed around strips of vegetable or raw fish into a cylindrical seaweed-wrapped roll that is sliced into bite-size pieces (maki), or wrapped together with strips of vegetable or raw fish in a sheet of dried seaweed and rolled into a cone shape (temaki).
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Origin of sushi
First recorded in 1895–1900; from Japanese: “sour, sour rice”
Words nearby sushi
susceptibility, susceptible, susceptive, susceptor, Susette, sushi, Susian, Susiana, Susie, sus laws, suslik
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sushi
/ (ˈsuːʃɪ) /
noun
a Japanese dish consisting of small cakes of cold rice with a topping esp of raw fish
Word Origin for sushi
from Japanese
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