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.

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

Synonym of bamboo grass (running bamboo in the genus Sasa, especially when referring to Sasa palmata)

Any shark of the family Hemiscylliidae

plural of bamboo shark

A kind of running bamboo, native to East Asia, in the genus Sasa.

A widespread tropical bamboo from Southeast Asia (Bambusa vulgaris).

A Chinese species of bamboo naturalized in Japan and other countries, Phyllostachys edulis

(slang, archaic) The act of striking a person who comes begging for money.

A species of bamboo with golden-yellow stems, Phyllostachys aurea, which is native to Fujian and Zhejiang in China and widely cultivated as an ornamental wherever the climate is warm enough.