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Weaken, eating one Italian mushroom (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

shiitake

'mushroom' is the definition.
(shiitake is a kind of mushroom)

'weaken eating one italian' is the wordplay.
'weaken' becomes 'shake' (shaking is a kind of weakening**).
'eating' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'italian' becomes 'it'.
'i'+'it'='iit'
'shake' going around 'iit' is 'SHIITAKE'.

(Another definition for shiitake that I've seen is " Type of mushroom".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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