ゼンマイ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ゼンマイ – see the following entry.

【薇ぜんまい】H [noun] [from 1709] Japanese flowering fern (Osmunda japonica), of which the young fiddleheads are edible Alternative spellings 紫萁, 狗脊

(This term, ゼンマイ (zenmai), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)