1. extremely vigorous bamboo having thin-walled culms striped green and yellow; so widely cultivated that native area is uncertain; [syn: common bamboo, Bambusa vulgaris]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
common bamboo
n 1: extremely vigorous bamboo having thin-walled culms striped
green and yellow; so widely cultivated that native area is
uncertain [syn: common bamboo, Bambusa vulgaris]