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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

• BAMBOO SHOOT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Edible young shoots of bamboo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("bamboo shoot" is a kind of...):

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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