Shiitake

Definition: Shiitake

Shiitake

Noun

1. Edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe.

Specialty Definition: Shiitake mushroom

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Shiitake mushrooms (椎茸) are an edible mushroom typically cultivated on the shii tree (Pasania cuspidata--a relative of the oak). Sometimes called black forest mushrooms.
Shiitake have many uses in Chinese and Japanese cuisine. They are served in miso soup, used as the basis for a kind of vegetarian dashi, and also as an ingredient in many steamed and simmered dishes.
Shiitake are often dried and sold as preserved food in packages. These must be rehydrated by soaking in water before using. Many Japanese prefer dried shiitake to fresh, considering the condensed flavor of the dried mushrooms to be superior. The stems of shiitake are rarely used in Japanese cuisine. The stems are also rarely used in other cuisines, primarily because the stems are harder and take longer to cook than the soft fleshy caps.
Today there is a global industry in Shiitake production, with local farms in most western countries in addition to large scale importation from China, Japan and elsewhere.

References
Tsuji, Shizuo. (1980). Japanese cooking: A simple Art. Kodansha International/USA, New York.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shiitake mushroom."

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Synonyms: Shiitake

Synonyms: golden oak mushroom (n), shiitake mushroom (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Shiitake

Domain	Title
Books	The Shiitake Way: Vegetarian Cooking With Shiitake Mushrooms (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Shiitake

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Preparations that have been claimed to have benefit to CFS patients include astralagus, borage seed oil, bromelain, comfrey, echinacea, garlic, Ginkgo biloba, ginseng, primrose oil, quercetin, St. John's wort, and Shiitake mushroom extract. (references)
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Expressions: Shiitake

Expressions using "shiitake": shiitake mushroom ♦ Shiitake Mushrooms. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Shiitake

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
shiitake	73
shiitake mushroom	61
shiitake recipe	9
shiitake mushroom growing	6
mushroom recipe shiitake	5
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shiitake substrate	3
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cultivation shiitake straw	2
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comestibles hongos shiitake	2
recetas shiitake	2
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Modern Translation: Shiitake

Language		Translations for "shiitake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		椎茸 (wide brown shiitake mushroom). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しいたけ (wide brown shiitake mushroom). (various references)

Pig Latin		iitakeshay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Shiitake

Derivations
	Words beginning with "shiitake": shiitakes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Shiitake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: heitiki, shikaki, Shitface, shitfaced, Shqiptare. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Shiitake

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-i-k-s-t"
	-2 letters: kithes, saithe.
	-3 letters: haets, haiks, hakes, haste, hates, heats, heist, hikes, ikats, khats, khets, kites, kithe, kiths, saith, shake, sheik, shtik, skate, skite, stake, steak, takes, teaks, tikes, tikis.
	-4 letters: aits, ates, east, eath, eats, etas, eths, haes, haet, haik, hake, hast, hate, hats, heat, hest, hets, hies, hike, hist, hits, ikat, kaes.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-i-k-s-t"
	+1 letter: shiitakes.
	+3 letters: kinesthesia.
	+4 letters: kinesthesias.
	+5 letters: spaghettilike.
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