Bamboo
noun
A type of tall plant with hard hollow stems that are used for building and furniture.
The house was built using bamboo.
Often appears as...
- bamboo forest
- bamboo shoots
noun
The hard, hollow stem of the bamboo plant, used as a material.
He made a raft from pieces of bamboo.
Often appears as...
- bamboo flooring
- bamboo raft
noun
The shoots of the bamboo plant used as food, especially in Asian cuisine.
The stir-fry recipe calls for fresh bamboo shoots.
Often appears as...
- bamboo shoot soup
- stir-fried bamboo shoots
Usage tips
Culinary
noun
A type of tall plant with hard hollow stems that are used for building and furniture.
The house was built using bamboo.
Often appears as...
- bamboo forest
- bamboo shoots
noun
The hard, hollow stem of the bamboo plant, used as a material.
He made a raft from pieces of bamboo.
Often appears as...
- bamboo flooring
- bamboo raft
noun
The shoots of the bamboo plant used as food, especially in Asian cuisine.
The stir-fry recipe calls for fresh bamboo shoots.
Often appears as...
- bamboo shoot soup
- stir-fried bamboo shoots
Usage tips
Culinary
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Construction Material
Bamboo is eco-friendly and used in sustainable building rather than just any construction.
They chose bamboo for their eco-cabin.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Significance
Bamboo plays a vital role in Asian cultures, often symbolizing strength and resilience.
The festival featured a bamboo art installation.
Pro Tip 3/3Versatile Use
Bamboo isn't limited to building; it's used for clothing, utensils, and decorations, showing its versatility.
She wore a dress made of bamboo fabric.
Pro Tip 1/3Construction Material
Bamboo is eco-friendly and used in sustainable building rather than just any construction.
They chose bamboo for their eco-cabin.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Significance
Bamboo plays a vital role in Asian cultures, often symbolizing strength and resilience.
The festival featured a bamboo art installation.
Pro Tip 3/3Versatile Use
Bamboo isn't limited to building; it's used for clothing, utensils, and decorations, showing its versatility.
She wore a dress made of bamboo fabric.
Pro Tip 1/3Construction Material
Bamboo is eco-friendly and used in sustainable building rather than just any construction.
They chose bamboo for their eco-cabin.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Significance
Bamboo plays a vital role in Asian cultures, often symbolizing strength and resilience.
The festival featured a bamboo art installation.
Pro Tip 3/3Versatile Use
Bamboo isn't limited to building; it's used for clothing, utensils, and decorations, showing its versatility.
She wore a dress made of bamboo fabric.
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History through the eyes...
The region’s bamboo plants produce massive amounts of fruit just once every few decades. Junglefowls’ ability to lay eggs daily may have evolved to take advantage of these rare feasts, increasing their population when food was abundant. This was something humans could exploit
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Is invisibility the...
years to our knowledge and they go with bamboo harpoons and hunt for whales and I went out with them one day and there was a hole in the boat and there was a hole in the baler as well which is inconvenient we've forgotten to take an anchor and on top of that I was the only
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John Hardy: My green...
The heart of school has seven kilometers of bamboo in it. From the time the foundations were finished, in three months it had roofs and floors. It may not be the biggest bamboo building in the world, but many people believe that it's the most beautiful.
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Otters Have a Favourite...
pop it just in around here any way you like but sometimes put in different places so a reason we put the bamboo in different places is so it's not the same place every day so it's enriching for him so how old are the red pandas here so there
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Steve Winter: On the...
conservation society with Tigers forever and said listen you stop hunting you're going to make more money if we can stop the tiger coming into your village how about if we bring in bamboo and build some pens they built pens at the end of
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How Magellan circumnaviga...
and the native's bamboo spears ended the captain's life. Yet the voyage had to continue. Magellan's will specified that Enrique should be freed, but the expedition still needed an interpreter. With his freedom at stake,
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Magical houses, made of...
So there are lots of things that we're still working on, but one thing I have learned is that bamboo will treat you well if you use it right. It's actually a wild grass. It grows on otherwise unproductive land --
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What if the poor were...
it does not change aspirations. Now poor people have lived in temporary structures all their life. They go from wall to wall, moving from bricks to tin. They move from building from bamboo,
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Giant Pandas' Mating...
best candidate is pinpin he's brought to the nursery and placed in an adjoining pen to help things along one of the vets uses a stem of bamboo to touch the glands under Yosh wands tail
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Baby Twin Pandas PIPE Panda...
It is essential the swap happens quickly before foster mum notices baby is missing. A bamboo distraction can only last so long.
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History through the eyes...
The region’s bamboo plants produce massive amounts of fruit just once every few decades. Junglefowls’ ability to lay eggs daily may have evolved to take advantage of these rare feasts, increasing their population when food was abundant. This was something humans could exploit
Video examples
Is invisibility the...
years to our knowledge and they go with bamboo harpoons and hunt for whales and I went out with them one day and there was a hole in the boat and there was a hole in the baler as well which is inconvenient we've forgotten to take an anchor and on top of that I was the only
Video examples
John Hardy: My green...
The heart of school has seven kilometers of bamboo in it. From the time the foundations were finished, in three months it had roofs and floors. It may not be the biggest bamboo building in the world, but many people believe that it's the most beautiful.
Video examples
Otters Have a Favourite...
pop it just in around here any way you like but sometimes put in different places so a reason we put the bamboo in different places is so it's not the same place every day so it's enriching for him so how old are the red pandas here so there
Video examples
Steve Winter: On the...
conservation society with Tigers forever and said listen you stop hunting you're going to make more money if we can stop the tiger coming into your village how about if we bring in bamboo and build some pens they built pens at the end of
Video examples
How Magellan circumnaviga...
and the native's bamboo spears ended the captain's life. Yet the voyage had to continue. Magellan's will specified that Enrique should be freed, but the expedition still needed an interpreter. With his freedom at stake,
Video examples
Magical houses, made of...
So there are lots of things that we're still working on, but one thing I have learned is that bamboo will treat you well if you use it right. It's actually a wild grass. It grows on otherwise unproductive land --
Video examples
What if the poor were...
it does not change aspirations. Now poor people have lived in temporary structures all their life. They go from wall to wall, moving from bricks to tin. They move from building from bamboo,
Video examples
Giant Pandas' Mating...
best candidate is pinpin he's brought to the nursery and placed in an adjoining pen to help things along one of the vets uses a stem of bamboo to touch the glands under Yosh wands tail
Video examples
Baby Twin Pandas PIPE Panda...
It is essential the swap happens quickly before foster mum notices baby is missing. A bamboo distraction can only last so long.
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Quote examples
Paul Horn
American Musician
After I came out of surgery - I was in the hospital for five weeks - I found that I gravitated toward very gentle sounds: chant music, solo bamboo flute sounds, a laid-back record of my own called 'Inside.' And the music became a very real part of my recovery process.
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Eddie Huang
American Chef
I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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Marlon Brando
American Actor
With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.
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Dia Mirza
Indian Model
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that plastic! So I switched to bamboo toothbrushes years ago.
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Rory Stewart
British Politician
When my father was posted to Malaysia, we'd take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and go hiking in the jungle or make bamboo rafts to sail down rivers.
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Derek Walcott
Poet
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
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Dian Fossey
American Scientist
For captive gorillas, trees should be available to climb and material such as straw, branches, or bamboo supplied for nest building.
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Marcel Wanders
Dutch Designer
To me, relaxing doesn't mean that we play ding-dong songs and look at a wall of bamboo. It's just completely unoriginal.
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Bruce Lee
American Actor
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
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Steve Lacy
American Musician
Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
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Paul Horn
American Musician
After I came out of surgery - I was in the hospital for five weeks - I found that I gravitated toward very gentle sounds: chant music, solo bamboo flute sounds, a laid-back record of my own called 'Inside.' And the music became a very real part of my recovery process.
Quote examples
Eddie Huang
American Chef
I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
Quote examples
Marlon Brando
American Actor
With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.
Quote examples
Dia Mirza
Indian Model
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that plastic! So I switched to bamboo toothbrushes years ago.
Quote examples
Rory Stewart
British Politician
When my father was posted to Malaysia, we'd take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and go hiking in the jungle or make bamboo rafts to sail down rivers.
Quote examples
Derek Walcott
Poet
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
Quote examples
Dian Fossey
American Scientist
For captive gorillas, trees should be available to climb and material such as straw, branches, or bamboo supplied for nest building.
Quote examples
Marcel Wanders
Dutch Designer
To me, relaxing doesn't mean that we play ding-dong songs and look at a wall of bamboo. It's just completely unoriginal.
Quote examples
Bruce Lee
American Actor
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
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Steve Lacy
American Musician
Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
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