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PHYLLOSTACHYS

Dictionary entry overview: What does Phyllostachys mean?

• PHYLLOSTACHYS (noun)
The noun PHYLLOSTACHYS has 1 sense:

1. medium and large bamboos

Familiarity information: PHYLLOSTACHYS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PHYLLOSTACHYS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Medium and large bamboos

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Phyllostachys; Phyllostachys

Hypernyms ("Phyllostachys" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Phyllostachys"):

fishpole bamboo; gosan-chiku; hotei-chiku; Phyllostachys aurea (small bamboo of southeastern China having slender culms flexuous when young)

black bamboo; kuri-chiku; Phyllostachys nigra (small bamboo having thin green culms turning shining black)

giant timber bamboo; ku-chiku; madake; Phyllostachys bambusoides (large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely brown elsewhere)

Holonyms ("Phyllostachys" is a member of...):

Bambuseae; tribe Bambuseae (bamboos)

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