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bamboo

bam.boo \bam-'bu:\ n [Malay bambu] : any of various chiefly tropical woody 
   or arborescent grasses (as of the  genera Bambusa, Arundinaria, and 
   Dendrocalamus) including some with hollow stems used for building, 
   furniture, or utensils and young shoots for food - bamboo aj