shiro

See also: Shiro and Shirō

English

Etymology 1

Possibly from Amharic or Tigrinya ሺሮ (širo, “chickpea flour”)

Noun

shiro (uncountable)

1. An East African stew whose primary ingredient is powdered chickpeas or broad bean meal.

Etymology 2

Uncertain, but some sources link the word to Japanese 城 (shiro, “castle”) or 白 (shiro, “white”) (see quotation below).

Noun

shiro (plural shiros)

1. A mass of hyphae constituting the mycelium of certain fungi.
   • 1997, David Hosford, David Pilz, Randy Molina, and Michael Amaranthus, Ecology and Management of the Commercially Harvested American Matsutake Mushroom‎^[1], page 2:

     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 species form in the soil.

Anagrams

• horis

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Japanese

Romanization

shiro

1. Rōmaji transcription of しろ