Any of the four species of burrowing rodents in the spalacid tribe Rhizomyini, found in China and southeast Asia

plural of bamboo wife

In East Asia and Southeast Asia, a hollow bamboo bolster roughly the size of a human body, embraced by a person while sleeping during hot weather because its open structure exposes the body to cooling air flow.

Phyllostachys nigra, native to Hunan province in China and widely cultivated, used for lumber as well as in gardens.

An apocryphal Asian form of torture where a bamboo shoot is grown through the victim's body, piercing it and eventually emerging on the other side.

Alternative letter-case form of Bamboo Curtain

(historical) The political and ideological barrier between the communist and capitalist states of Asia during the Cold War.

Especially in America, a social barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for a person of East Asian ethnicity.

trichorrhexis invaginata

plural of heavenly bamboo