adzuki

adzuki · noun — either the plant or the seed of the azuki bean.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 小豆(あずき) (azuki, literally “small bean”). In Japanese, it was historically pronounced /aduki/, but /du/ eventually transformed into /zu/, and was variously romanized as "dzu" and "zu" (compare kudzu).

noun

Either the plant or the seed of the azuki bean.e.g.“Adzukis need 118 days to start bearing.” — 2003, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 9th edition, →ISBN, page 289:

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Words closest in meaning

By meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.

anko 58% match — A paste made of azuki beans. vs adzuki →
fava 55% match — A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of plants of species Vicia faba or the plant itself. vs adzuki →
bean 55% match — Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods. vs adzuki →
drybean 54% match — Any bean of the genus Phaseolus. vs adzuki →
rajgira 53% match — Any of the cereal plants called amaranth, and its seed used for food. vs adzuki →
frijol 53% match — Any cultivated bean of the genus Phaseolus, especially the black seed of a variety of Phaseolus vulgaris. vs adzuki →
breadroot 53% match — The edible root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta). vs adzuki →
bodi 53% match — Asparagus beans. vs adzuki →