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BAMBOO SHOOT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bamboo shoot mean?
• BAMBOO SHOOT (noun)
The noun BAMBOO SHOOT has 1 sense:
1. edible young shoots of bamboo
Familiarity information: BAMBOO SHOOT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Edible young shoots of bamboo
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("bamboo shoot" is a kind of...):
veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)
Holonyms ("bamboo shoot" is a part of...):
Bambusa vulgaris; common bamboo (extremely vigorous bamboo having thin-walled culms striped green and yellow; so widely cultivated that native area is uncertain)
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