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heavenly bamboo

heavenly bamboo noun: an Asian ornamental shrub in the family Berberidaceae, with foliage and unbranched stems that somewhat resembles one of the smaller bamboos, Nandina domestica.

heavenly bamboo: an Asian ornamental shrub in the family Berberidaceae, with foliage and unbranched stems that...
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Noun

heavenly bamboo (countable and uncountable, plural heavenly bamboos)

  1. An Asian ornamental shrub in the family Berberidaceae, with foliage and unbranched stems that somewhat resembles one of the smaller bamboos, Nandina domestica.

Synonyms of heavenly bamboo

Forms of heavenly bamboo

pluralheavenly bamboos

Origin of heavenly bamboo

A calque of Chinese 天竹 (tiānzhú, “sky bamboo, heavenly bamboo”).

Questions about heavenly bamboo

What does heavenly bamboo mean?
Heavenly bamboo means an Asian ornamental shrub in the family Berberidaceae, with foliage and unbranched stems that somewhat resembles one of the smaller bamboos, Nandina domestica.
What part of speech is heavenly bamboo?
Heavenly bamboo is a noun.
What is the plural of heavenly bamboo?
The plural of heavenly bamboo is heavenly bamboos.

Words near heavenly bamboo in the dictionary

  1. heavenlike
  2. heavenlily
  3. heavenliness
  4. heavenlinesses
  5. heavenly
  6. heavenly bamboo
  7. heavenly bamboos
  8. heavenly birthday
  9. heavenly birthdays
  10. heavenly bodies
  11. heavenly body

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