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Giant bamboo   /dʒˈaɪənt bæmbˈu/   Listen
Giant bamboo

noun
1.
Immense tropical southeast Asian bamboo with tough hollow culms that resemble tree trunks.  Synonyms: Dendrocalamus giganteus, kyo-chiku.





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"Giant bamboo" Quotes from Famous Books



... the more agreeable water-plants at the water's edge, so that fertility and sterility stood side by side. Mr. Young planted some seeds of numerous vegetables, plants, and trees, and among others some of the giant bamboo, Dendrocalamus striatus, also Tasmanian blue gum and wattles. I am afraid these products of Nature will never reach maturity, for the natives are continually burning the rough grass and spinifex, and on a favourably windy occasion these will consume everything green or dry, down ...
— Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration • Ernest Giles
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Words linked to "Giant bamboo" :   kyo-chiku, Dendrocalamus, bamboo, Dendrocalamus giganteus, genus Dendrocalamus


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