The story
- Japanese · borrowed from椎茸
- English todayshiitake
Borrowed 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 4.0.