BAMBOO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bamboo mean? 

• BAMBOO (noun)
  The noun BAMBOO has 2 senses:

1. the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles

2. woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture

  Familiarity information: BAMBOO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAMBOO (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

 Context examples 

A better understanding of the thermal properties of bamboo provides insights into how to reduce the energy consumption of bamboo buildings.

(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)

The researchers discovered that the galloping gourmets are indeed big on bamboo—and are drawn to the same sunny, gently sloped spots as pandas.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

You will kindly deposit your ash in the small Japanese tray on the bamboo table which stands at your left elbow.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, a malicious rogue of a skipper went to an officer, and pointing to me, told him, I had not yet trampled on the crucifix; but the other, who had received instructions to let me pass, gave the rascal twenty strokes on the shoulders with a bamboo; after which I was no more troubled with such questions.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It also enables modelling of the way bamboo building components behave when exposed to fire, so that measures can be incorporated to make bamboo buildings safer.

(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)

Pandas and horses eat about the same amount of bamboo, but a herd of more than 20 horses created veritable feeding frenzies, destroying areas that the reserve was established to protect.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

Meanwhile, as Jose, whose arm was pierced by a broken bamboo, insists upon returning, I send this letter back in his charge, and only hope that it may eventually come to hand.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While much research has been done on the cell structure of bamboo in relation to its mechanical properties, almost none has looked at how cell structure affects the thermal properties of the material.

(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)

Over the years, she started noticing that uninvited guests had apparently been serving themselves at the bamboo buffet—and they were eating like horses…literally.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

Behind us was the wall of bamboo, as definite as if it marked the course of a river.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)