Wakame (Undaria pinnatifida) is a species of kelp native to cold, temperate coasts of the northwest Pacific Ocean. As an edible seaweed, it has a subtly sweet, but distinctive and strong flavour and satiny texture. It is mos… 詳細

In Old Japanese, me stood for edible seaweeds in general as opposed to mo standing for algae. In kanji, such as 海藻, 軍布 and 和布 were applied to transcribe the word. Among seaweeds, wakame was likely most often … 詳細

The earliest appearance in Western documents is probably in Nippo Jisho (1603), as Vacame.
In 1867 the word wakame appeared in an English-language publication, A Japanese and English Dicti… 詳細