enoki

[ ih-noh-kee ]

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of enoki¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

The team treated the fruiting bodies of enoki mushrooms and the inedible reishi mushrooms with sodium hydroxide and hydrogen peroxide.

From Science Daily

“In summer, street food seems like the way to go in a place like this,” said Gretchen Stelzenmuller, who cooked professionally in San Francisco before moving back home to Sitka during the pandemic and opening her mobile food business, Enoki Eatery, which serves Japanese-inspired comfort food.

From New York Times

As Salon previously reported, Andrew Adamatzky, a Computer scientist at the Unconventional Computing Laboratory at the University of the West of England, Bristol, used sub-dermal needle electrodes to record electrical impulses from four different fungi: ghost, enoki, split gill and caterpillar mushrooms.

From Salon