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umami
[ oo-mah-mee ]
/ uËmÉ mi /
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noun
a strong meaty taste imparted by glutamate and certain other amino acids: often considered to be one of the basic taste sensations along with sweet, sour, bitter, and salty.
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Origin of umami
First recorded in 1960â65; from Japanese: literally, âsavory quality, delicious taste,â equivalent to uma-, the inflectional stem of umai â(to be) deliciousâ + -mi, a suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives
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