bamboo shoot

English

Noun

bamboo shoot (plural bamboo shoots)

1. (chiefly in the plural) The edible shoot of either of several species of bamboo (especially of the genera Dendrocalamus and Phyllostachys) cooked and eaten as a vegetable in Chinese and similar cuisine

Translations

edible part of some bamboo types

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 竹筍 (cmn), 竹笋 (cmn) (zhúsǔn)

• French: pousses de bambou (fr) pl
• German: Bambussprossen (de)

• Japanese: 筍 (ja) (たけのこ, takenoko), 竹の子 (ja) (たけのこ, takenoko)
• Malay: rebung (ms)
• Russian: побеги бамбука (ru) (pobégi bambúka) m pl 
• Vietnamese: măng (vi)