bamboo
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1. woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | graminaceous plant, gramineous plant, |
| definition | : | cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bambusa vulgaris, common bamboo, |
| definition | : | extremely vigorous bamboo having thin-walled culms striped green and yellow; so widely cultivated that native area is uncertain (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | arundinaria gigantea, cane reed, giant cane, |
| definition | : | tall grass of southern United States growing in thickets (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | arundinaria tecta, small cane, switch cane, |
| definition | : | small cane of watery or moist areas in southern United States (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | dendrocalamus giganteus, giant bamboo, kyo-chiku, |
| definition | : | immense tropical southeast Asian bamboo with tough hollow culms that resemble tree trunks (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | fishpole bamboo, gosan-chiku, hotei-chiku, phyllostachys aurea, |
| definition | : | small bamboo of southeastern China having slender culms flexuous when young (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | black bamboo, kuri-chiku, phyllostachys nigra, |
| definition | : | small bamboo having thin green culms turning shining black (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | giant timber bamboo, ku-chiku, madake, phyllostachys bambusoides, |
| definition | : | large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely grown elsewhere (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | bambuseae, tribe bambuseae, |
| definition | : | bamboos (noun.plant) |
| substance holonym | : | bamboo, |
| definition | : | the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles (noun.plant) |
2. the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | wood, |
| definition | : | the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees (noun.substance) |
| substance meronym | : | bamboo, |
| definition | : | woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture (noun.plant) |
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