bamboo - woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture

wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

graminaceous plant, gramineous plant - cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and narrow long-bladed leaves

Bambuseae, tribe Bambuseae - bamboos

bamboo - the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles

Bambusa vulgaris, common bamboo - extremely vigorous bamboo having thin-walled culms striped green and yellow; so widely cultivated that native area is uncertain

Arundinaria gigantea, cane reed, giant cane - tall grass of southern United States growing in thickets

Arundinaria tecta, small cane, switch cane - small cane of watery or moist areas in southern United States

Dendrocalamus giganteus, giant bamboo, kyo-chiku - immense tropical southeast Asian bamboo with tough hollow culms that resemble tree trunks

fishpole bamboo, gosan-chiku, hotei-chiku, Phyllostachys aurea - small bamboo of southeastern China having slender culms flexuous when young

black bamboo, kuri-chiku, Phyllostachys nigra - small bamboo having thin green culms turning shining black

giant timber bamboo, ku-chiku, madake, Phyllostachys bambusoides - large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely brown elsewhere