shiitake mushroom

Questions about shiitake mushroom

What does shiitake mushroom mean?

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

What is another word for shiitake mushroom?

Close synonyms include shiitake, Chinese black mushroom, golden oak mushroom, Oriental black mushroom, Lentinus edodes. 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 shiitake mushroom a common word?

shiitake mushroom 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.