🥒 A green vegetable 🌿 A climbing plant 🥗 Edible shoots

chayote

7.5

Young tender shoots and leaves of a climbing plant eaten as a vegetable

noun
/ˈʧeɪoʊti/

: brotes de chayote

She added fresh chayote shoots to the soup for extra flavor and nutrition.

Examples

Farmers harvest chayote leaves early in the season to sell at local markets.
In some regions, people stir-fry chayote with garlic and serve it as a side dish.
I bought a fresh chayote at the market.
Are you familiar with chayote?
She added fresh chayote shoots to the soup for extra flavor and nutrition.
In some regions, people stir-fry chayote with garlic and serve it as a side dish.
Farmers harvest chayote leaves early in the season to sell at local markets.

Synonyms

bamboo shoot

vschayote

2 2.1

A young stem of bamboo you can eat and use as a vegetable in Asian cooking

is used in various cuisines rather than mainly in Asian cooking

leafy vegetable

vschayote

2 1.9

A plant with green leaves and stems you eat

is a specific plant's tender shoots or leaves rather than vegetables in general

chaya

vschayote

9.7

A tropical leafy shrub whose leaves you must cook before eating

is the shoots or leaves of a single plant rather than a whole shrub

Surface Forms

chayote singular

chayotes plural

Etymology

Chayote comes from the Nahuatl word chayohtli, the traditional name for the plant, and in many places people also use chayote for its young shoots and leaves. So using the same word for the edible shoots is natural because they come from the same plant.