Shiitake
/ʃɪˈtɑkeɪ/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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Noun
- 1 A wide, brown variety of edible mushroom, Lentinula edodes.
"Some fun meatless recipes include jackfruit sandwiches in place of pulled pork; black bean meatless balls or eggplant and shiitake “meatballs.”"
- 2 edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe wordnet
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More examples""Shiitake" is a sort of mushroom."
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 椎茸 (shītake), from 椎 (shī, “a shii or chinquapin tree”) + 茸 (take, “a mushroom”), from the way the mushrooms tend to grow on chinquapin logs. First cited in English in 1877.