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Shiitake

2 stages from Japanese to English.

Today it means an edible mushroom widely used in East Asian cooking
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Stage 1 of 2
shiitake
Japanese · medieval
"a mushroom grown on shii tree logs"
named for the shii tree on whose logs the mushroom is traditionally cultivated
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Stage 2 of 2
shiitake
English · 1970s
"an edible mushroom used widely in East Asian cooking"
adopted directly as the mushroom became popular internationally
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