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BAMBOO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bamboo" is a kind of...):
graminaceous plant; gramineous plant (cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves)
Meronyms (substance of "bamboo"):
bamboo (the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bamboo"):
Bambusa vulgaris; common bamboo (extremely vigorous bamboo having thin-walled culms striped green and yellow; so widely cultivated that native area is uncertain)
Arundinaria gigantea; cane reed; giant cane (tall grass of southern United States growing in thickets)
Arundinaria tecta; small cane; switch cane (small cane of watery or moist areas in southern United States)
Dendrocalamus giganteus; giant bamboo; kyo-chiku (immense tropical southeast Asian bamboo with tough hollow culms that resemble tree trunks)
fishpole bamboo; gosan-chiku; hotei-chiku; Phyllostachys aurea (small bamboo of southeastern China having slender culms flexuous when young)
black bamboo; kuri-chiku; Phyllostachys nigra (small bamboo having thin green culms turning shining black)
giant timber bamboo; ku-chiku; madake; Phyllostachys bambusoides (large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely grown elsewhere)
Holonyms ("bamboo" is a member of...):
Bambuseae; tribe Bambuseae (bamboos)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("bamboo" is a kind of...):
wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)
Holonyms ("bamboo" is a substance of...):
bamboo (woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture)
Context examples:
These thicker layers also give bamboo its strength and stiffness.
(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)
The reason: Horses have been beating pandas to the bamboo buffet.
(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)
Just as night fell we cleared the belt of bamboos, and at once formed our camp, exhausted by the interminable day.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The study involved scanning cross-sections of bamboo vascular tissue, the tissue that transports fluid and nutrients within the plant.
(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)
It didn't take particular panda expertise to know that something was amiss when we'd come upon horse-affected bamboo patches.
(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)
Their place was taken by an immense wilderness of bamboo, which grew so thickly that we could only penetrate it by cutting a pathway with the machetes and billhooks of the Indians.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“People may worry about fire safety of bamboo buildings,” said Shah.
(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)
And they only eat bamboo.
(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)
"And the bamboo grows through his smashed ribs," said Summerlee.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At present, products such as laminated bamboo are most commonly used as flooring materials due to their hardness and durability.
(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)
