bamboo shoot

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

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bamboo′ shoot`

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 plant

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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Her forte seemed to be salads, and she astonished him with the deliciousness of a salad made from young bamboo shoots. Wild tomatoes, which had gone to seed or been remorselessly hoed out from the beginning of Berande, were foraged for salads, soups, and sauces.

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Ever since the bamboo shoots turned spotty-brown he had been looking forward to the morning when the smells should change.

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The products that will be removed from stores' shelves were identified as Mua Yu Sesame Oil, Bullhead Barbeque Sauce, Bullhead Brand Hot and Spicy Barbeque Sauce, Wei Chuan Pickled Bamboo Shoot Strips in Chili Oil, Wei Chuan Pickled Bamboo Shoots and Wei Chuan Canned Tausi Eel.

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I don't sell other variety but only U-Marok and bamboo shoot," said Shangkai, a trader.

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JAMES says: "I was raised in Singapore and Malaysia so I'm used to eating sweet bamboo shoot tips.

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Soups include Hot-and-Sour Lemongrass Soup, Galangal Coconut Soup, and Bamboo Shoot Stew.

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The local products included pulse, mustard oil, tengma or flattened maize, bamboo shoot pickle and honey.

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I pick it up and place mouth tenderly against unpolished bamboo hole, and then from bamboo shoot pour out my soul.

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the time interval between the completion of consumption of one bamboo piece/shoot and the initiation of consumption of the next, which was taken as the time when the panda began to sniff one piece of bamboo (or shoot) or started to eat one selected piece of bamboo (or bamboo shoot).

The development and characteristics of feeding behaviour in captive giant pandas

coagulans, Micrococcus luteus and yeast-Candida, Saccharomyces and Torulopsis have commonly been isolated from fermented bamboo shoot (14).

Microbial Fermentation by Traditional Process using Intrinsic Microflora Reduces the Cyanide Content of Bamboo Shoots