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Definition of BAMBOO

Bamboo
Bamboo Bam*boo", v. t. To flog with the bamboo.
Bamboo
Bamboo Bam*boo", n. [Malay bambu, mambu.] (Bot.) A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries. Note: The most useful species is Bambusa arundinacea, which has a woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, and grows to the height of forty feet and upward. The flowers grow in large panicles, from the joints of the stalk, placed three in a parcel, close to their receptacles. Old stalks grow to five or six inches in diameter, and are so hard and durable as to be used for building, and for all sorts of furniture, for water pipes, and for poles to support palanquins. The smaller stalks are used for walking sticks, flutes, etc.

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- Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the gr**** family Poaceae. Giant bamboos...
- refer to: Bamboo, Jamaica, a village Bamboo, Queensland, a locality in Australia Bamboo Forest (Kyoto, ****an), also called the Arashiyama Bamboo Grove or...
- Bamboo torture is a form of torture and execution where a bamboo shoot grows through the body of a victim. It was reportedly used in East and South Asian...
- Giant bamboo is a common name for several large species of bamboo and may refer to: Large species in the genus Bambusa include: "Giant timber bamboo" (Bambusa...
- Bamboo shoots or bamboo sprouts are the edible shoots (new bamboo culms that come out of the ground) of many bamboo species including Bambusa vulgaris...
- 666772°E / 35.009465; 135.666772 The Bamboo Forest, Arashiyama Bamboo Grove, or Sagano Bamboo Forest is a natural bamboo forest in Arashiyama, Kyoto, ****an...
- "lucky bamboo," which has become one of its common names. Common names include Sander's dracaena, ribbon dracaena, lucky bamboo, curly bamboo, Chinese...
- Bamboo textile is any cloth, yarn or clothing made from bamboo fibres. While bamboo was historically used only for structural elements, such as bustles...
- The bamboo curtain was a political demarcation between the communist states of East Asia, particularly the People's Republic of China and the capitalist...
- strictus is a bamboo species belonging to the Dendrocalamus genus. The culms (stems) are often solid. Common names include male bamboo, solid bamboo, and Calcutta...