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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 : , abbrevation of mù’er, wood ear mushroom (, tree, wood + ěr, ear) + , whiskers.]

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