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Definition of Bamboo

Bamboo

A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.

To flog with the bamboo.

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Bamboo Quotations

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
Ramakrishna

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
Elliott Smith

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.
Marlon Brando

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
Derek Walcott

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
Steve Lacy

Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps.
David Walker

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Bamboo Translations

bamboo in Danish is bambus
bamboo in Dutch is bamboe
bamboo in German is Bambus
bamboo in Norwegian is bambus
bamboo in Portuguese is bambu
bamboo in Swedish is bambu

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