COMMON BAMBOO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common bamboo mean? 

• COMMON BAMBOO (noun)
  The noun COMMON BAMBOO has 1 sense:

1. extremely vigorous bamboo having thin-walled culms striped green and yellow; so widely cultivated that native area is uncertain

  Familiarity information: COMMON BAMBOO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON BAMBOO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely vigorous bamboo having thin-walled culms striped green and yellow; so widely cultivated that native area is uncertain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Bambusa vulgaris; common bamboo

Hypernyms ("common bamboo" is a kind of...):

bamboo (woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture)

Meronyms (parts of "common bamboo"):

bamboo shoot (edible young shoots of bamboo)

Holonyms ("common bamboo" is a member of...):

Bambusa; genus Bambusa (tall tender clumping bamboos)