うめぼし

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Japanese

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梅干し
umeboshi: salt-dried or pickled Japanese ume (a kind of plum); very sour, and often used as a condiment in Japanese cooking
(slang) an elderly person (from the similarity of wrinkled skin to a wrinkled umeboshi; compare usage of English prune)
(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.)