nigiri-zushi

noun

1. See under sushi.

noun Japanese Cookery.

1. cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, usually shaped into bite-size pieces and topped with raw seafood (nigiri-zushi) or formed into a long seaweed-wrapped roll, often around strips of vegetable or raw fish, and sliced into bite-size pieces (maki-zushi).

noun

1. a Japanese dish consisting of small cakes of cold rice with a topping esp of raw fish

n.

1893, from Japanese.