1 bamboo shoot

1 Chinese lettuce

2 celtuce

3 asparagus lettuce

4 celery lettuce

5 stem lettuce

1 asparagus

1 winter bamboo shoots (smaller and tenderer as a result of being dug out before they come out of the soil)

1 springtime bamboo shoots

2 fig. (of woman's fingers) tender and delicate

1 lit. after rain, the spring bamboo (idiom); fig. rapid new growth

2 many new things emerge in rapid succession