Usually means: Fast-growing tall woody grass.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word bamboo:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. bamboo: Merriam-Webster
  2. bamboo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bamboo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bamboo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bamboo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bamboo, bamboo: Wordnik
  7. bamboo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bamboo: Wiktionary
  9. bamboo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bamboo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bamboo: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bamboo, bamboo: Dictionary.com
  13. bamboo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bamboo: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bamboo (album), Bamboo (band), Bamboo (disambiguation), Bamboo (film), Bamboo (production act), Bamboo (rapper), Bamboo (software), Bamboo (unit), Bamboo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bamboo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bamboo: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bamboo: Rhymezone
  19. Bamboo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bamboo: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. bamboo: FreeDictionary.org
  22. bamboo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. bamboo: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. bamboo: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. bamboo: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bamboo: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bamboo: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Garden Flower, Shrub and Tree Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bamboo, bamboo: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Bamboo: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A fast-growing grass of the Bambusoideae subfamily, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The wood of the bamboo plant as a material for building, furniture, etc.
▸ noun:  (countable) A stick, rod, pole, or cane of bamboo, especially one used for corporal punishment.
▸ noun:  (slang) A didgeridoo.
▸ noun:  (slang) 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.
▸ adjective:  Made of the wood of the bamboo.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To flog with a bamboo cane.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To paint (furniture, etc.) to give it the appearance of bamboo.
▸ verb:  (India, slang) To penetrate sexually.

Similar:
woody, bambu, bambusoid, common bamboo, bamboo grass, golden bamboo, Buddha belly bamboo, spiny bamboo, bamboo fern, broadleaf bamboo, more...

Opposite:
hardwood

Types:
moso bamboo, madake bamboo, timber bamboo, weaver's bamboo, fernleaf bamboo, hemp bamboo, more...

Phrases:
bamboo shoots, bamboo curtain, bamboo shoot, bamboo curtains, bamboo grass, more...

Adjectives:
split, long, green, hollow, tall, large, giant, small, thick, young, plaited

Colors:
    bamboo green,     olive,     sage,     fern,     pistachio, more...


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Similar:
woody, bambu, bambusoid, common bamboo, bamboo grass, golden bamboo, Buddha belly bamboo, spiny bamboo, bamboo fern, broadleaf bamboo, more...

Opposite:
hardwood

Types:
moso bamboo, madake bamboo, timber bamboo, weaver's bamboo, fernleaf bamboo, hemp bamboo, more...

Phrases:
bamboo shoots, bamboo curtain, bamboo shoot, bamboo curtains, bamboo grass, bamboo spine, giant bamboo, heavenly bamboo, Bamboo network, golden bamboo, bamboo rat, bamboo palm, bamboo rats, bamboo ware, more...

Adjectives:
split, long, green, hollow, tall, large, giant, small, thick, young, plaited

Colors:
    bamboo green,     olive,     sage,     fern,     pistachio, more...



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