shiros

Noun (1)

shiro (uncountable)

1. A stew of Ethiopia and Eritrea origin whose primary ingredient is powdered chickpeas or broad-bean meal.

Noun (2)

shiro (plural shiros)

1. A mass of hyphae constituting the mycelium of certain fungi.
   • Another commonly used Japanese term in matsutake literature is "shiro". As a Japanese noun, it means castle or domain (fruiting place) of a mushroom. As an adjective, it means white. More specifically, a shiro is the dense mat of fungal filaments ("hyphae" or collectively "mycelium") that matsutake...1997, David Hosford, David Pilz, Randy Molina, Michael Amaranthus, Ecology and Management of the Commercially Harvested American Matsutake Mushroom, page 2

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