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noun
A plant, Hedysarum alpinum, whose edible root is consumed by the Inuit of Alaska.
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noun
A square wooden box, originally used to measure rice in Japan during the feudal period.
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noun
masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou)
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History
Borrowed from Inupiaq masu.
Borrowed from Japanese 枡.
From Japanese 鱒 (masu, “trout, sea trout, salmon”).
Across languages
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