lentinus edodes

Questions about lentinus edodes

What does lentinus edodes mean?

lentinus edodes means "edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe".

What is another word for lentinus edodes?

Close synonyms include shiitake, shiitake mushroom, Chinese black mushroom, golden oak mushroom, Oriental black mushroom. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lentinus edodes a common word?

lentinus edodes is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.