Shiitake

//ʃɪˈtɑkeɪ// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe wordnet

Synonyms

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chinese black mushroomchinese mushroomchinese mushroomgolden oak mushroomlentinus edodesoriental black mushroom

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""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.

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