うめぼし

Japanese

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

【梅干し】 [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 (umeboshi), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)