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- French · derived frommer“sea”
- English todaymerroir
Neologism from French mer (“sea”) + terroir. Coined by Seattle Times food writer Greg Atkinson in March 2003.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
merroir
Today it means: The complete set of local conditions in which seafood is raised. The total characteristics or phenotype of an organism due to attributes such as harvest and cultivation technique, salinity, tides, local food sources, seasonality, and climate. Full definition →
French mer