Definition of Bambusa vulgaris

1. Noun. Extremely vigorous bamboo having thin-walled culms striped green and yellow; so widely cultivated that native area is uncertain.

Exact synonyms: Common Bamboo
Terms within: Bamboo Shoot
Generic synonyms: Bamboo
Group relationships: Bambusa, Genus Bambusa

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bambusa Vulgaris

Balzacians
Bama
Bamako
Bambaiyya
Bambaiyyas
Bambara
Bamberger's albuminuria
Bamberger's disease
Bamberger's sign
Bamberger-Marie disease
Bamberger-Marie syndrome
Bambi bucket
Bambi buckets
Bambi factor
Bambusa
Bambusa vulgaris (current term)
Bambuseae
Banach space
Banach spaces
Bananaland
Banasura
Banburismus
Banbury story of a cock and a bull
Band of Partisans
Bandar Seri Begawan
Bandarban
Bandarban District
Bandersnatch
Bandjalang
Bandjin

Literary usage of Bambusa vulgaris

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Select Extra-tropical Plants: Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1891)
"It likes rich, moist soil, and delights on river-banks ; it is of less height than Bambusa vulgaris, also sends up from the root numerous stems, ..."

2. Reading List on Papermaking Materials by Clarence Jay West (1921)
"Bambusa vulgaris. Yellow and green striped bamboo. Cross, Bevan, and King, page 49. Griffin and Little, page 132. Routledge, 1875. Watt, vol. I, 393. ..."

3. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"Bambusa vulgaris, U'mdl. Its stems are from 20 to 30 feet long, and as thick as a child's arm. In one of his reports, Dr. Cleghorn mentions ..."

4. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1900)
"... an altitude of 2000 feet above the sea, one or two, such as the Bambusa vulgaris or taisan-chik:,, are not strictly hardy here, and less so in England. ..."

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