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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024bam•boo /bæmˈbu/USA pronunciation n., pl. -boos. - a tall tropical grass with woody, usually hollow stems and stalks of narrow leaves: [uncountable]The panda feeds on bamboo.[countable]hacking through the bamboos.
- Furniture[uncountable] the stem of a bamboo.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bam•boo (bam bo̅o̅′),USA pronunciation n., pl. -boos. - Plant Biologyany of the woody or treelike tropical and semitropical grasses of the genera Bambusa, Phyllostachys, Dendrocalamus, and allied genera, having woody, usually hollow stems with stalked blades and flowering only after years of growth.
- Furniturethe stem of such a plant, used as a building material and for making furniture, poles, etc.
- Dutch bamboes; compare Neo-Latin bambūsa
- Dravidian); replacing bambus
- Dravidian; compare Kannada bambu, bombu a large, hollow bam-boo (or directly
- Malay, apparently
- spelling, spelled variant of earlier bambu 1590–1600
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: bamboo /bæmˈbuː/ n - any tall treelike tropical or semitropical fast-growing grass of the genus Bambusa, having hollow woody-walled stems with ringed joints and edible young shoots (bamboo shoots)
- the stem of any of these plants, used for building, poles, and furniture
Etymology: 16th Century: probably from Malay bambu |