What is "wakame"

n. (taxlink Undaria pinnatifida species noshow=1), an edible seaweed.

, Undaria pinnatifida, is a sea vegetable, or edible seaweed. It has a subtly sweet flavour and is most often served in soups and salads.

Sea-farmers have grown wakame in Japan since the Nara period. It has been nominated as among 100 of the world's worst invasive species according to the Global Invasive Species Database.

Wakame most often refers to Undaria pinnatifida, an edible seaweed.

It may also refer to:

• Wakame Isono, the younger sister of Sazae Fuguta, the title character in the Sazae-san manga and anime series
• Kume no Wakame (?-781), a muraji and mother of Fujiwara no Momokawa, a statesman from the Nara period
• Wakame soup, also known as miyeok guk, a type of Korean soup made from the sea vegetable wakame
• Wakameshu, a Japanese liqueur made with wakame
• California wakame, or Alaria marginata, a species of the Alaria genus of brown algae