udon
[oo-don]
- thick, white Japanese noodles made from wheat flour, often served in soup.
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Genji smiled slightly, and said: "That is a very great compliment; but the Udon tree does not blossom so easily."
Japanese LiteratureVarious
The soba is a sort of vermicelli made of buckwheat, and the udon a kind of macaroni, solid and not in tubes.
A Japanese BoyShigemi Shiukichi
To provide for any among them that did not love sweet things we had the soba or the udon brought to us by their vender.
A Japanese BoyShigemi Shiukichi
udon
- (in Japanese cookery) large noodles made of wheat flour
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Word Origin
Japanese
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