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Is bamboo a vegetable or a grass?

Question #142489. Asked by chabenao1.
Last updated Apr 15 2016.
Originally posted Apr 13 2016 12:32 AM.

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Apr 13 2016, 12:48 AM
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It's a vegetable as bamboo shoots in a Chinese takeaway, and it's grass when a panda or gorilla is eating it or when it's it's just growing somewhere wild. link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo

Apr 13 2016, 10:37 AM
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The question has little meaning because 'vegetable' and 'grass' are names from different ways of classifying things. Some forms of bamboo are a vegetable (if you mean a plant that can be eaten) but most are not.
All types of bamboo are in the botanical family Gramineae (which are commonly called grasses) but it is not a grass in the commonly accepted meaning of the word (a low growing monocot that can be cut or eaten and reshoot easily).

Apr 15 2016, 12:51 AM
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