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8 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe
originBorrowed from Japanese 椎茸 (shītake), from 椎 (shī, “a shii or chinquapin tree”) + 茸 (take, “a mushroom”), from the way the mushrooms tend to grow on chinquapin logs. First cited in English in 1877.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- shitake 14
- kithes 13
- skaith 13
- haiks 12
- hakes 12
- hikes 12
- khats 12
- khets 12
- kithe 12
- kiths 12
- shake 12
- sheik 12