bamboo : Idioms & Phrases

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bamboo curtain

  • noun an ideological barrier around communist China especially in the 1950s and 1960s
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bamboo fern

  • noun fast-growing sturdy Japanese fern; cultivated for their attractive broad dark-green pinnate fronds
    Coniogramme japonica.
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bamboo palm

  • noun small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers
    fern rhapis; Rhapis excelsa; miniature fan palm.
  • noun a palm of the genus Raffia
    Raffia vinifera.
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bamboo shoot

  • noun edible young shoots of bamboo
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black bamboo

  • noun small bamboo having thin green culms turning shining black
    Phyllostachys nigra; kuri-chiku.
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common bamboo

  • noun extremely vigorous bamboo having thin-walled culms striped green and yellow; so widely cultivated that native area is uncertain
    Bambusa vulgaris.
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fishpole bamboo

  • noun small bamboo of southeastern China having slender culms flexuous when young
    Phyllostachys aurea; hotei-chiku; gosan-chiku.
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giant bamboo

  • noun immense tropical southeast Asian bamboo with tough hollow culms that resemble tree trunks
    Dendrocalamus giganteus; kyo-chiku.
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giant timber bamboo

  • noun large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely grown elsewhere
    Phyllostachys bambusoides; madake; ku-chiku.
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