noun
immense tropical southeast Asian bamboo with tough hollow culms that resemble tree trunks
• Syn: ↑kyo-chiku, ↑Dendrocalamus giganteus
• Hypernyms: ↑bamboo
• Member Holonyms: ↑Dendrocalamus, ↑genus Dendrocalamus
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noun : a plant of the genus Dendrocalamus; especially : an immense Indo-Malayan grass (D. giganteus) with tough hollow stems that resemble tree trunks
Useful english dictionary. 2012.