enoki
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of enoki
< Japanese enoki(take), equivalent to enoki “hackberry, Chinese nettle tree” + take “mushroom”
Example Sentences
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She couldn't remember "the specific purchase", but had previously bought a variety of mushrooms - shitake, porcini, enoki - from similar stores, she said.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2025
Fans also line up on weekends for its rice rolls, chicken sticky rice, egg yolk buns and bean curd wrap with pork and enoki mushroom.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2024
Montebello-based company recalls enoki mushrooms suspected as the source of a listeria outbreak that has infected 36 people and killed four.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024
The team treated the fruiting bodies of enoki mushrooms and the inedible reishi mushrooms with sodium hydroxide and hydrogen peroxide.
From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2024
It is said that if either an old yanagi or a young enoki be cut blood will flow from the gash.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Hearn, Lafcadio
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