うめぼし

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of うめぼし – see the following entry.

[noun] umeboshi: salt-dried or pickled Japanese ume (a kind of plum); very sour, and often used as a condiment in Japanese cooking

[noun] (slang) an elderly person (from the similarity of wrinkled skin to a wrinkled umeboshi; compare usage of English prune)

[noun] (medicine) an unripe Japanese ume that has been smoked over a fire until black, used in traditional medicines and as a pigment

Alternative spelling
梅干

(This term, うめぼし, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

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