bamboo


Definition: Meaning of, bamboo in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / bamˈbuː /

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bamboo bamboos
[uncountable and countable]
  1. a tall tropical plant with hollow stems that is used for making furniture
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bamboo used in phrases

  • bamboo curtain (noun)
    1. an ideological barrier around communist China especially in the 1950s and 1960s
  • bamboo fern (noun)
    1. fast-growing sturdy Japanese fern; cultivated for their attractive broad dark-green pinnate fronds
  • bamboo palm (noun)
    1. small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers
    2. a palm of the genus Raffia
  • bamboo shoot (noun)
    1. edible young shoots of bamboo
  • black bamboo (noun)
    1. small bamboo having thin green culms turning shining black
  • common bamboo (noun)
    1. extremely vigorous bamboo having thin-walled culms striped green and yellow; so widely cultivated that native area is uncertain
  • fishpole bamboo (noun)
    1. small bamboo of southeastern China having slender culms flexuous when young
  • giant bamboo (noun)
    1. immense tropical southeast Asian bamboo with tough hollow culms that resemble tree trunks
  • giant timber bamboo (noun)
    1. large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely grown elsewhere
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