wasabi

1. 1.

   a Japanese plant of the family Cruciferae with a thick green root

   Broaderherb

   Part ofCruciferae
2. 2.

   the thick green root of the wasabi plant that the Japanese use in cooking and that tastes like strong horseradish; in powder or paste form it is often eaten with raw fish

   Broadercondiment

   Japan

Other forms of wasabi

plural

wasabis·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wasabi

What does wasabi mean?

wasabi means "a Japanese plant of the family Cruciferae with a thick green root". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wasabi?

wasabi has 3 syllables: wa-sa-bi. The stress falls on "wa".

Is wasabi a common word?

wasabi is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.