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# bamboo

«bamboo» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very tall, fast-growing plant, a kind of giant grass…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (bamboo — uncountable; a bamboo, bamboos for kinds)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Bamboo is a very tall, fast-growing plant, a kind of giant grass, with hard hollow stems divided into sections. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bamboo/#m1)

2) Bamboo is also the strong, light material made from those stems, used for building, furniture, fishing rods and even toothbrushes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bamboo/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons bamboo comes up as the food of giant pandas and as one of the fastest-growing plants on Earth — some kinds grow almost a metre in a single day. In design and technology and in lessons about the environment, bamboo is a sustainable material because it grows back quickly. In Asian stories and art, bamboo is a sign of strength because it bends in the wind but does not break.

### examples

- Pandas eat bamboo almost all day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bamboo/#x1)
- Bamboo is a kind of giant grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bamboo/#x2)
- Some bamboo can grow very fast in a single day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bamboo/#x3)
- We grew beans up bamboo canes in the school garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bamboo/#x4)
- My new toothbrush is made of bamboo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bamboo/#x5)
- The bamboo stem is hollow inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bamboo/#x6)
- The bamboo bent in the storm but did not snap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bamboo/#x7)
- They built a raft from bamboo poles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bamboo/#x8)
- Long, long ago, there lived an old bamboo wood-cutter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bamboo/#x9)

### note

Usually uncountable: «some bamboo», «a bamboo cane», «a bamboo forest». Bamboo is a grass, not a tree, even though it can be as tall as a tree. Spelling: double «o» at the end.

### In the corpora

- [Plants grow mainly at the tips of their shoots and roots, and some bamboos can grow nearly a metre in a day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/14/)
- [Bamboo flowers and dies all at once every few decades, so pandas need several kinds of bamboo nearby.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/8/)
- [Bamboo has little goodness, so pandas must eat a lot and rest to save energy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/5/)
- [Its hollow stems with solid joints are strong and light, so Hong Kong builders still tie bamboo poles into scaffolding round skyscrapers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/1/)
- [Bamboo stems are hollow with solid joints, which makes them strong and light, and bamboo bends without breaking and grows back quickly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bamboo» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bamboo/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.