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umami
[ oo-mah-mee ]
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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Word History and Origins
Origin of umami1
First recorded in 1960–65; from Japanese: literally, “savory quality, delicious taste,” equivalent to uma-, the inflectional stem of umai “(to be) delicious” + -mi, a suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives
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Example Sentences
This unsmoked, wet-cured ham is the sine qua non of Parisian butcher shops: a light, ephemeral meat, sweet but umami.
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If “umami” was recently accepted into the lexicon...maybe “tomato-ey” isn't that far behind.
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