Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Chinese dish of stir-fried vegetables, egg, and often meat or fish served wrapped in a thin pancake.
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- noun Alternative form of
moo shu .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Mandarin mùxū, the fragrant flowering shrub Osmanthus fragrans (because the scrambled eggs in the dish resemble the shrub's blossoms in shape and color ), or mùxū : mù, abbrevation of mù’er, wood ear mushroom (mù, tree, wood + ěr, ear) + xū, whiskers.]
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