bamboo

Definition

  • noun: a tall plant with hard hollow stems that are used for building and to make furniture, tools, etc.
  • noun: any of various woody or arborescent grasses (as of the genera 'Bambusa, Arundinaria,' and 'Dendrocalamus' of the subfamily Bambusoideae) of tropical and temperate regions having hollow stems, thick rhizomes, and shoots that are used for food

Examples

  • The recipe is prepared with 'bamboo shoots'. [=young bamboo plants]

  • The house is full of 'bamboo' furniture.

  • We cut down some 'bamboos'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Most other bears would be sleeping underground by now, but the giant panda can't fatten up enough to hibernate. Its food, bamboo, on which it totally relies has so little nutritional value that it can't build up a store of fat like other bears. Most of the creatures here move up or down the slopes with the seasons but the panda is held captive by its diet for the kind of bamboo it eats only grows at this altitude. But these forests hold fewer challenges for the more mobile. The golden snap-nosed monkey, like the giant panda, lives only in China. (..)
    2006 TvShow: Planet Earth Title: Mountains Season: 1 Episode 2