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enoki

American  
[ih-noh-kee] / ɪˈnoʊ ki /

noun

  1. a thin, long-stemmed and tiny-capped white mushroom, Flamma velutipes, native to the northern mountain ranges of Japan and prized as a food.


Etymology

Origin of enoki

< Japanese enoki(take), equivalent to enoki “hackberry, Chinese nettle tree” + take “mushroom”

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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

In almost every temple ground there is planted a tree called enoki, which is sacred to Kōjin.

From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould

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