edamame

What it means

1. countableuncountableFresh green soybeans boiled as a vegetable.

   When Americans started eating more sushi in the 1980s, edamame also became more popular. More than 95 percent of the edamame consumed in the US comes from China, but domestic production of the edible green soybean is on the rise.

   2019, Karman Meyer, Eat to Sleep, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 81

In a sentence

When Americans started eating more sushi in the 1980s, edamame also became more popular. More than 95 percent of the edamame consumed in the US comes from China, but domestic production of the edible green soybean is on the rise.

2019, Karman Meyer, Eat to Sleep, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 81

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Japanese 枝(えだ)豆(まめ) (edamame, literally “stem beans”).