bamboo shoots


plural noun
  1. the young shoots produced by the rhizome of a bamboo, used as a vegetable.

Origin of bamboo shoots

1
First recorded in 1885–90

Words Nearby bamboo shoots

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How to use bamboo shoots in a sentence

  • By about the 15th one last time, I was trying to relax by shoving bamboo shoots under my fingernails.

    The GOP’s Inept Autopsy | Michael Tomasky | March 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • He digs peanut butter out of bamboo shoots and sucks on frozen hemp milk and munches on mangoes and sweet potatoes and grapes.

    Bubbles Speaks | Ben Montgomery | July 5, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Her forte seemed to be salads, and she astonished him with the deliciousness of a salad made from young bamboo shoots.

    Adventure | Jack London
  • More often the supply runs short and the tribe has to subsist for several weeks on bamboo shoots and forest roots.

  • Hunting one day in the forest, I happened to meet a little girl who was gathering bamboo shoots for the family meal.

  • A man once went to visit his mother-in-law and for dinner they gave him rice with a relish made of young bamboo shoots.

    Folklore of the Santal Parganas | Cecil Henry Bompas
  • Before long their curiosity was satisfied, and they strolled away to crop the young bamboo shoots.

    Jack Haydon's Quest | John Finnemore