bamboo

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bam‧boo/ˌbæmˈbuː◂/ noun [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE]
[date : 1500-1600; Language : Malay; Origin : bambu]

a tall tropical plant with hollow stems that is used for making furniture

noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
cane
▪ Ann's boyfriend hits Tommy around the head with a bamboo cane spiked with nails.
▪ Single bamboo canes are also used as rhythm sticks in many parts of the world, including Polynesia and the Amazon Basin.
▪ Firm soil around roots and stake standard-trained plants using a bamboo cane.
hut
▪ Carey set to work clearing the jungle and erecting a little bamboo hut with fences to keep out tigers!
▪ A hard dirt path leads into the village past a cluster of small bamboo huts.
▪ The hostages had been kept in mud and bamboo huts in a mosquito-infested swamp area.
▪ At one time they had to dive out of the bamboo hut in which they were sheltering when a gunfight erupted.
pole
▪ It includes handmade umbrellas with bamboo poles and struts, and handpainted weatherproof cotton canopies.
▪ Along the sidewalks, women walked with heavy baskets of produce hooked on bamboo poles laid across their shoulders.
▪ Both the Corporation and the Company had always turned trolleys with a hooked bamboo pole.
▪ I decided we should paint all the bamboo poles with raw lacquer before we tied them together.
▪ The seawater flowed up through the cracks between the bamboo poles, and the wave crest traveled right over the raft.
▪ Mark lashed the windmill to the inevitable bamboo pole, and we tried propping it near the stern.
▪ We were happy to see that the bamboo pole looked to be in excellent condition.
▪ Frustrated designers constructed elaborate beach retreats with driftwood, bamboo poles, and Laura Ashley sheets.
raft
▪ His 60-foot bamboo raft will have a crew of five or six people.
▪ The same was true of our bamboo raft.
▪ But the bamboo raft ploughed forward smoothly.
▪ But they were not looking out for a small, insignificant speck of a slow-moving bamboo raft.
▪ At seventy-five feet Sea Dragon had been larger than Hsu Fu and a much more substantial vessel than a flimsy bamboo raft.
▪ After a few days on shore I had forgotten just how flexible was our bamboo raft.
▪ In short, he was ideally suited for long-distance sailing on an increasingly waterlogged bamboo raft.
▪ It would only test whether the bamboo raft could have been a vehicle for such contact.
shoot
▪ Add onion, bamboo shoots, ginger, water chestnuts and boy choy and cook 1-2 minutes.
▪ Fry bamboo shoots for 2 minutes.
▪ We ate greens and bamboo shoots, picked in the jungle, and occasionally villagers would give us a bit of meat.
VERB
make
▪ Then the guides lured a barking deer, with the sound of a pipe they made out of half-split bamboo.
▪ She was made of flexible bamboo, while the majority of the other rafts had been more massive, sturdy timber structures.
▪ It is made of earth and bamboo but it is beautiful.
▪ The table was made of bamboo, lacquered scarlet, and the top was painted with gilded peonies.
▪ At the foot of the steps is a shack made of bamboo and planks of wood.
use
▪ Firm soil around roots and stake standard-trained plants using a bamboo cane.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Along the sidewalks, women walked with heavy baskets of produce hooked on bamboo poles laid across their shoulders.
▪ Ann's boyfriend hits Tommy around the head with a bamboo cane spiked with nails.
▪ But the bamboo raft ploughed forward smoothly.
▪ But the bamboo sailing rafts needed less than a foot of water to float, and came gliding right into the shallows.
▪ Grazing buffalo knocked over the satellite dish, so a bamboo fence has had to be built around it.
▪ His 60-foot bamboo raft will have a crew of five or six people.
▪ I tried peeking down through a gap between the bamboo slats.
▪ In 1970 a large area of bamboo flowered and died resulting in many deaths through starvation in the panda population.