giant bamboo

1. 1.

   immense tropical southeast Asian bamboo with tough hollow culms that resemble tree trunks

   Synonymskyo-chikuDendrocalamus giganteus

   Broaderbamboo

   Part ofDendrocalamus

Questions about giant bamboo

What does giant bamboo mean?

giant bamboo means "immense tropical southeast Asian bamboo with tough hollow culms that resemble tree trunks".

What is another word for giant bamboo?

Close synonyms include kyo-chiku, Dendrocalamus giganteus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is giant bamboo a common word?

giant bamboo is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.