WordNet
giant bamboo
n. immense tropical southeast Asian bamboo with tough hollow culms that resemble tree trunks [syn: kyo-chiku, Dendrocalamus giganteus]
Wikipedia
Giant bamboo
Giant bamboo is a common name for several large species of bamboo and may refer to:
- Giant timber bamboo (Bambusa oldhamii), a large bamboo species originating from Taiwan
- Moso Bamboo ( Phyllostachys edulis) a commercial species used for timber, crafts and its edible shoots, found in Japan, Taiwan, and China.
- Madagascar giant bamboo (Cathariostachys madagascariensis), a bamboo species found in Madagascar
- species in the genus Dendrocalamus found from the Indian subcontinent throughout Southeast Asia
- species of the genus Gigantochloa found in tropical Southeast Asia
- species of the genus Guadua concentrated in the Amazon basin and the Orinoco basin
Usage examples of "giant bamboo".
Frigate and Kazz, however, had made several buckets out of sections of the giant bamboo.
Shaftoe peers up through a blizzard of notes and sees giant bamboo poles soaring and bounding and windmilling toward the waterfront.
Massive silt banks lifted their backs through the surface, a light yellow fur along their spines marking the emergence of the first giant bamboo groves.
Jerry led them up a walkway beside a winding drive, past groves of palm trees and stands of giant bamboo springing from an impossibly green lawn.