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All saiyan names are pun on vegetables. Kakaroto (carrot), Vegita (vegetable),
Tarble (vegetable), Bardock (Burdock), Totepo (potato), Broly (broccoli),
Cabba (cabbage), etc.

Now Akira Toriyama gave recently in an interview the name of the first super
saiyan and the first super saiyan god, Yamoshi. Is this a pun on something?


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Is Yamoshi a pun on something?


Yamoshi is indeed a pun for **Moyashi** **_(もやし)_**.

Moyashi is the Japanese term for Bean Sprouts. Bean sprouts are a common
ingredient in many Japanese dishes such as stir fries and soups.


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Yamoshi's name is a pun on "Moyashi" (もやし), the Japanese term for bean
sprouts. This not only fits with Saiyan nomenclature, but also the legends of
both Super Saiyan and Super Saiyan God as a whole (with Yamoshi being the
"seed" that both legends sprouted from).


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