bamboo shoot

bamboo shoot

n. The young shoot of certain species of bamboo, sliced, cooked, and eaten as a vegetable, especially in East Asian cuisine.

bamboo′ shoot`

n. the young shoot produced by the rhizome of a bamboo, used as a vegetable. [1885–90]

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bamboo shoot - edible young shoots of bamboo veg, vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plantBambusa vulgaris, common bamboo - extremely vigorous bamboo having thin-walled culms striped green and yellow; so widely cultivated that native area is uncertain