Definition of “bamboo”

From the nearby jungle, we collected as much wood and bamboo as possible, in order to keep a fire going all night.

From under the bus the conductor pulled a very long bamboo pole with a hook on one end.

In 1975-6, after the bamboo died, nearly 150 pandas were found dead, and no doubt many more died without being found.

It was hard work being in mud up to his knees as he erected bunches of plumes strapped to 30 bamboo poles.

More real is the childhood in a village with no school: "We had to cross many bamboo bridges on top of the rocks.

Selling chang The woman lifts a false bottom out of a barrel and scoops the millet into four bamboo sleeves.

The bamboo forests renew themselves completely in five years.

There was a threatening rattle of bamboo clubs striking the palm trunks.

We bought two large orchids for £47 and decorated with a bamboo roller blind, £17.99.