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BAMBUSA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tall tender clumping bamboos

Synonyms:

Bambusa; genus Bambusa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Bambusa" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Bambusa"):

Bambusa vulgaris; common bamboo (extremely vigorous bamboo having thin-walled culms striped green and yellow; so widely cultivated that native area is uncertain)

Holonyms ("Bambusa" is a member of...):

Bambuseae; tribe Bambuseae (bamboos)

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