maitake

English

Etymology

From Japanese 舞茸 (maitake).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mai‧ta‧ke

Noun

maitake (countable and uncountable, plural maitakes)

1. Grifola frondosa, an edible polypore mushroom that grows in clusters at the bases of trees.
   • 2007 November 9, Stephen Regenold, “Hot on the Trail of the Edible Fungi in Illinois”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Truffles, maitake, matsutake, king boletes, shiitake and dozens of other edible types are hunted commercially around the planet.

Synonyms

• hen of the woods, ram's head, sheep's head, signorina

Translations

Grifola frondosa

• Arabic: مَيْتَاكِي (maytākī)
• Catalan: gírgola de castanyer
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 灰樹花 / 灰树花 (huīshùhuā)

• Hungarian: ágas tapló (hu), bokrosgomba (hu)
• Japanese: 舞茸 (ja) (まいたけ, maitake)
• Korean: 잎새버섯 (ipsaebeoseot)
• Macedonian: зајачарка f (zajačarka)
• Russian: гирфо́ла курча́вая f (girfóla kurčávaja), гриб-бара́н (ru) m (grib-barán)
• Welsh: iâr y coed f

Anagrams

• take aim

Japanese

Romanization

maitake

1. Rōmaji transcription of まいたけ
2. Rōmaji transcription of マイタケ