BAMBUSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bambusa mean? 

• BAMBUSA (noun)
  The noun BAMBUSA has 1 sense:

1. tall tender clumping bamboos

  Familiarity information: BAMBUSA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAMBUSA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall tender clumping bamboos

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Bambusa; genus Bambusa

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)