BAMBOO

Bamboo

Bamboo is a tribe of flowering perennial evergreen plants in the grass family Poaceae, subfamily Bambusoideae, tribe Bambuseae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family. In bamboos, the internodal regions of the stem are hollow and the vascular bundles in the cross section are scattered throughout the stem instead of in a cylindrical arrangement. The dicotyledonous woody xylem is also absent. The absence of secondary growth wood causes the stems of monocots, even of palms and large bamboos, to be columnar rather than tapering.

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bamboo

Noun

  1. A grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the tribe.
  2. The wood of the bamboo plant as a material or cane.
  3. a didgeridoo
  4. A British military or Honourable East India Company employee, who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never went back home.

Verb

  1. To flog with a bamboo cane.

Adjective

  1. Made of the wood of the bamboo.


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