bamboo
(bæmbuː )
Word forms: bamboos
variable noun
Bamboo is a tall tropical plant with hard, hollow stems. The young shoots of the plant can be eaten and the stems are used to make furniture.
...huts with walls of bamboo.
...bamboo shoots.
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Collocations:
bamboo basket bamboo cane bamboo fence bamboo fibre bamboo flooring bamboo flute bamboo forest bamboo frame bamboo grove bamboo grows bamboo hut bamboo ladder bamboo mat bamboo plant bamboo scaffolding bamboo skewer bamboo stake bamboo stalk bamboo steamer bamboo stem bamboo stick bamboo thicket bamboo tree bamboo tube bamboo wall
Another catches the precious honey in a bamboo basket, whisking it back to the relative safety of the boat.
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For steaming the sticky rice they use a specific bamboo basket.
Smithsonian
Most people keep their clothes and other possessions in a bamboo basket called harka.
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A rooster would be selected for its unusual voice, and hoisted up the mast of the canoe in a special bamboo basket.
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After ending their fast, fruits, clothes and such other articles are given in charity in a bamboo basket to the saints.
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Trained on a bamboo cane it will reach about 6ft.
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Plants are cut right down to the ground and marked with a little bamboo cane to show where they are.
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Use a long bamboo cane or a marker line to get straight rows.
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After the story he would go downstairs, having made sure our bedroom window was open a crack, and a great, long bamboo cane would come through it.
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Put a tall bamboo cane next to each plant and tie them at the top so you can train the plants into a tepee.
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One evening, we arrived at the bamboo fence of a beautifully kept monastery occupied by only two monks.
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On a windy site, fewer plants will survive a harsh dry winter, so use more architectural elements to create privacy: a bamboo fence, trellis or arbour.
Globe and Mail
First seen in a bustling market scene, the hard-working actors shift earth, remove bamboo fences and wash walls to reveal propaganda posters.
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Every home has a kitchen garden surrounded by bamboo fences; in these gardens they grow vegetables, potatoes and bananas, among others.
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There are natural springs, stone lanterns, bamboo fences; the pond contains carps.
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You get the distinct sense that she finds all this talk of clothes frivolous; she would rather be talking about biofuels and bamboo fibre.
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Many designers have begun experimenting with bamboo fibre, which absorbs greenhouse gases during its life cycle and grows quickly and plentifully without pesticides.
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Cotton, flax, jute, hemp, modal and even bamboo fibre are all used in clothing.
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The inclusion of fine bamboo fibres in the system results in minimal distortion.
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Even the more expensive premium pestos had thickening agents such as vegetable or bamboo fibres.
The Sun
Three fireplaces, walnut-paneled library, quarter-sawn oak floors, sixth-floor studio with bamboo flooring.
Globe and Mail
The pair began selling bamboo flooring three years ago and have seen sales steadily rise.
Times, Sunday Times
What's a fair price for bamboo flooring?
canada.com
A second color of bamboo flooring (natural) was added, and the company introduced architectural-grade bamboo plywood to the marketplace.
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Wet mops should be avoided on the bamboo flooring.
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He recorded watersounds from a bucket of water and played sounds on a homemade bamboo flute.
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An opening ad lib trumpet statement, echoed in the bass bamboo flute.
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His only known pastimes are the playing of a bamboo flute and meditation.
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It represented by the following less popular instruments: the saunay (reed flute), suling (bamboo flute), and kulaing (jaw harp).
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Musical instruments such as the bamboo flute, bells, drums in various sizes, lute, and bowed and plucked string instruments were identified in this image.
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From 1976 to 2001, the average size of bamboo forest patch—the panda's preferred habitat—shrunk by around 24 percent, only recovering by 1.8 percent in the years since.
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I was filming elephants on foot in a bamboo forest.
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He waited for a second and then scampered off into the bamboo forest with a global positioning device attached to his collar.
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Outside the cabana, a pathway meanders through a bamboo forest and a five-acre organic farm where tropical fruits and aloe vera grow.
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Rarer sightings include those of the golden cat and the bongo - an elusive forest antelope that lives in the bamboo forest.
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Each wing had a veranda, some had a sunroom made from a surrounding fabric supported by a wooden or bamboo frame.
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The bamboo frame started as a stunt in 1996.
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Images were printed on paper, then cut along the margins and pasted onto a skeletal bamboo frame.
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Flowers are arranged on a square wooden plank or a square bamboo frame with the size of frames tapering off to form a pinnacle on top.
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Here the huts are mostly made of tin with plastic sheets stretched over bamboo frames.
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Viewing the final gift received - a mournful elephant in a bamboo grove - he has no idea how to respond.
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Here, you'll help look after the pandas in the company of a member of staff, collecting the bears from their bamboo grove and helping to feed them.
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It usually refers to the sound of leaves whispering in the breeze as the wind passes through a bamboo grove.
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They find samurai and bring them to an illusory mansion in the bamboo grove where the burnt-out house was.
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Keeping with that theme, he added pine and bamboo groves.
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This relative of bamboo grows 20 to 30 feet tall in a year’s time, producing more biomass per acre than almost any other plant on earth.
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As a grass, bamboo grows much faster than wood.
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Though adoptable to a wide range of soils, the common bamboo grows more vigorously on moist soils.
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Bamboo lemurs prefer damp forests where bamboo grows.
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Golden bamboo grows well in full sunlight or partial shade.
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He lived in a tiny bamboo hut and wore tattered clothing.
Christianity Today
No flimsy bamboo hut can hold him, he tells the others.
Times, Sunday Times
Once again he lived in a bamboo hut and made his living with hammer and chisel.
Christianity Today
They lived in a bamboo hut for the first two years and later constructed a mission house.
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Communities of about 100 don't usually run to a diplomatic staff, and aside from a nice line in overwater bamboo huts, there's no discernible culture here to be attachéd to.
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The keepers came to their rescue, improvising a new bridge using bamboo ladders.
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They used bamboo ladders to scale the walls under artillery support from the river.
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Due to his courage, intelligence, discrimination and zeal, he successfully led his men up the cliffs by means of bamboo ladders to a height of 200 feet.
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The authorities are distributing cotton quilts, bamboo mats and other relief supplies.
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His parents were landless farmers, and his father made a living carrying cargo at the river jetty and weaving bamboo mats.
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They are then dried in the sun on bamboo mats for several days (they are returned to the salt at night).
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Attics, insulated with bamboo mats and hay, often serve for drying animal skins and chilies.
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Coil and covering of the baren are woven and formed from parts of the bamboo plant, requiring the skill of a true master.
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The private gardens with bamboo plants and hot tubs look a little like hideaways in the tropics (if you squint).
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This has bamboo plants in terracotta pots, vines growing on trellises and neat garden furniture.
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The high growth rate of bamboo and the fact that bamboo can grow in such diverse climates makes the bamboo plant a sustainable and versatile resource.
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Seats spill into a charming courtyard back garden with a terrace and bamboo plants.
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It's an old community with walls held in place with bamboo scaffolding and washing strung out everywhere.
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Its hunters must climb barefoot and bare-chested along creaking bamboo scaffolding hundreds of feet above the ground to collect their prize - and they rarely use harnesses.
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The blocks were presumably put in place by a combination of elephants, coir ropes, pulleys and bamboo scaffolding.
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In some trades, such as bar-bending and bamboo scaffolding workers in the construction industry, have daily minimum wage negotiated between the trade unions and employers' organisations.
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Thread a bamboo skewer through each piece of paneer.
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In a shallow dish, immerse the bamboo skewers in water to cover.
The Sun
Meanwhile, soak the bamboo skewers in a bowl of cold water.
The Sun
Alternately thread the asparagus and halloumi onto 4 pairs of soaked bamboo skewers.
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Thread the chicken pieces onto pairs of bamboo skewers and refrigerate until needed.
Times, Sunday Times
Their bamboo stakes snapped savagely in two, the tree guards had been hurled far and wide over the stubble field.
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Sharp bamboo stakes were thickly sown into the grounds around the fort.
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This was surrounded by a high double curtain wall of bamboo stakes filled in with mud cladding and sun-baked.
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Ditches filled with water had been dug in front of the trenches, and the defences were crowned with bamboo stakes filed to sharp points.
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The inner region of the bamboo stalk symbolizes the void that must be established in one's mind before thinking of useful ideas.
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At rest, the animal clings to a vertical support, such as the side of a tree or bamboo stalk.
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Cut bamboo stalks at ground level across the entire stand.
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Sleek, rubbery floors and bamboo stalks set in resin used to be accessible only through top-end architects.
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Then, using hoses decorated with bamboo stalks, his acolytes power-bless the ecstatic crowd by spraying them with water.
Globe and Mail
Place a bamboo steamer on a pan over a medium heat and line with greaseproof paper.
The Sun
Roll to enclose the filling and place, seam-side down, in a large bamboo steamer lined with nonstick baking paper.
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He loved wandering around the food shops, curious about woks and bamboo steamers, and the unfamiliar fruit and vegetables.
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The ones here come as if sheathed in silk shawls, as opposed to the thick winter overcoats that turn up in some of those bamboo steamers elsewhere.
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One silver-spiralled bamboo stem among a grove of green?
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Other footage required specialist equipment, such as the infrared cameras that captured a colony of bumblebee-sized bats living inside a hollow bamboo stem.
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When this substance was packed inside hollow bamboo stems or paper tubes and lit on fire, the explosions were louder and produced visible flames.
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These heavy curtains hang over golden voiles painted with fine bamboo stems and leaves.
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Most bamboo stems will spring up unbelievably well from a flattening cargo of snow.
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He was born into poverty and played no golf until he was 16, when he tied the head of a five-iron to a bamboo stick.
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A bamboo stick works just as well though.
The Sun
It's like growing a plant propped up by a bamboo stick.
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After experimenting, by filling a bamboo stick with powder and throwing it into a fire, the basic firecracker was invented.
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Once within range, he strikes with his 4ft bamboo stick.
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Some areas, such as the bamboo thicket, allow some interaction.
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All were captured on the ground, some in bamboo thickets and another under a log.
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The park comprises dense semi-evergreen lowlands, montane forests, upland savannah, bamboo thickets and occasional patches of mixed deciduous forest.
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It got its name from bamboo thickets abundant in the area.
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Due to its dependence on bamboo thickets which only grow in clearings it seems to tolerate selective logging well and may actually benefit from it.
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Would you say that bamboo tree grew in six weeks, or five years?
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The landlord decided to foil the marriage with an impossible deal; the farmer must bring him a bamboo tree of 100 nodes.
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The person replied that a bamboo tree on the top of the island becomes two in the morning and one in the night.
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Such name was given to this place due to the presence of bamboo trees made for the construction of houses.
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Green bamboo trees installed in the space celebrates the serenity of an indoor garden.
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He carried a bamboo tube with which he collected donations.
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The flute bore a hole in bamboo tube.
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The holes in the bamboo tube were bored using red-hot embers.
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The bamboo tube should be turned regularly in order to cook evenly.
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Water may be added through a bamboo tube to create steam.
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The master bedroom suite, up on the second floor, has a bamboo wall.
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However, the front had a small platform or verandah with a bamboo wall hanging from the roof up to about 5 ft, making the entrance quite low.
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The four-room school has a tin roof and bamboo walls.
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The first classes were held in quonset huts with nipa roofs, sawali and bamboo walls, and mud floors.
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A house was divided into three rooms by woven bamboo walls.
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Translations:
Chinese: 竹子
Japanese: 竹
- road trip
- road tyre
- roadway
- road winds
- roadwork
- roadworks
- roadworthy
- roam
- roam a field
- roam an aisle
- roam a park
- roam a plain
- roam freely
- roaming
- roaming charge
- roam the area
- roam the city
- roam the countryside
- roam the earth
- roam the forest
- roam the grounds
- roam the island
- roam the land
- roam the ocean
- roam the planet