Sugarcane vs. Bamboo

Sugarcanenoun

juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice

Bamboonoun

A grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the Bambuseae tribe.

Sugarcanenoun

tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar

Bamboonoun

The wood of the bamboo plant as a material or cane.

Sugarcane

Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of (often hybrid) tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sucrose, which accumulates in the stalk internodes.

Bamboonoun

A didgeridoo.

Bamboonoun

(slang) A member of the British military or British East India Company who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never went back home.

Bambooadjective

Made of the wood of the bamboo.

Bambooverb

(transitive) To flog with a bamboo cane.

Bambooverb

(transitive) To paint (furniture, etc.) to give it the appearance of bamboo.

Bambooverb

To penetrate sexually.

Bamboonoun

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

Bambooverb

To flog with the bamboo.

Bamboonoun

the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles

Bamboonoun

woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture

Bamboo

Bamboos are a diverse group of evergreen perennial flowering plants in the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. The origin of the word is uncertain, but it probably comes from the Dutch or Portuguese language, which originally borrowed it from Malay or Kannada.In bamboo, as in other grasses, the internodal regions of the stem are usually hollow and the vascular bundles in the cross-section are scattered throughout the stem instead of in a cylindrical arrangement.

‘bamboo’;