the shoots of the bamboo plant, often used as food in Asian dishes
chicken with bamboo shoots and water chestnuts
bamboo shoots in American English
plural noun
the young shoots produced by the rhizome of a bamboo, used as a vegetable
Word origin
[1885–90]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: roller coaster, seminar, sensitization, upsweep, zoom