gosan-chiku

1. 1.

   small bamboo of southeastern China having slender culms flexuous when young

   Synonymsfishpole bamboohotei-chikuPhyllostachys aurea

   Broaderbamboo

   Part ofPhyllostachys

Questions about gosan-chiku

What does gosan-chiku mean?

gosan-chiku means "small bamboo of southeastern China having slender culms flexuous when young".

How many syllables are in gosan-chiku?

gosan-chiku has 4 syllables: go-san--chi-ku. The stress falls on "san-".

What is another word for gosan-chiku?

Close synonyms include fishpole bamboo, hotei-chiku, Phyllostachys aurea. 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 gosan-chiku a common word?

gosan-chiku 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.