bamboo

Definitions

1. bamboo (plant)
2. A fast-growing grass of the Bambusoideae subfamily, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem.
   countable, uncountable
3. bamboo (wood)
4. The wood of the bamboo plant as a material for building, furniture, etc.
   uncountable
5. A stick, rod, pole, or cane of bamboo, especially one used as a vessel for liquids, or as a tool for corporal punishment.
   countable
6. A didgeridoo.
   countable, slang, uncountable
7. A member of the British military or British East India Company who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never went back home.
   countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“However, the late Hsia and the Shang were considerably warmer, possibly comparable to Hang-chou today, an area where bamboo proliferates.”

“It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered away as I walked through the village and one girl about ten or twelve years old, who had just brought a bamboo full of water from the river, threw it down with a cry⟳ of horror and alarm the moment she caught sight of me, turned around and jumped into the stream.”

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