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Noun: giant timber bamboo
  1. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely grown elsewhere
    "Giant timber bamboo reached heights of forty feet";
    - madake, ku-chiku, Phyllostachys bambusoides

Derived forms: giant timber bamboos

Type of: bamboo

Part of: genus Phyllostachys, Phyllostachys

Encyclopedia: Giant timber bamboo