straw mushroom
- noun
- /strɔː ˈmʌʃruːm/
- Indian
:
seta de paja
- Cooks often use straw mushrooms in stir-fried vegetable dishes.
Examples
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The market sells straw mushrooms imported from Thailand and Vietnam.
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They added fresh straw mushrooms to the soup for a traditional flavor.
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I love adding straw mushrooms to my stir-fry.
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Have you ever tried straw mushrooms in soup?
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The stir-fry was delicious with tender pieces of chicken and straw mushrooms adding an earthy flavor.
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In many Asian markets, you can find straw mushrooms sold fresh or canned for use in various dishes.
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For the salad, we topped it with sliced straw mushrooms, which complemented the dressings perfectly.
Synonyms
A small edible mushroom with a white cap and long stem used in Asian cooking
A small white mushroom with long thin stems used in Asian cooking
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Morphology
The compound is a simple noun–noun construction where 'straw' modifies 'mushroom', so a learner who knows both words will infer it denotes a kind of mushroom associated with straw (e.g. grown on or found in straw). This compositional, type-of pattern is cross-linguistically common and thus readily understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Straw mushroom: The name straw mushroom comes from how farmers grew mushrooms on piles of rice straw, because the small mushrooms seemed to come straight from the straw. So the name simply means the edible mushroom that grows on straw.