bamboo shoot

1. 1.

   edible young shoots of bamboo

   Broadervegetable

   Part ofcommon bamboo

Questions about bamboo shoot

What does bamboo shoot mean?

bamboo shoot means "edible young shoots of bamboo".

Is bamboo shoot a common word?

bamboo shoot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.