noun. A genus of arborescent grasses, of the tribe Bambuseæ (which see), of about 25 well-known species, natives of southern and eastern Asia, one species only being cosmopolitan.

noun. tall tender clumping bamboos

"The splendid pine-trees, arums, and screw-pines; the varied species of bambusa, the grand magnolias and rhododendrons, which grow so profusely in the Himalaya valleys, had been described, and many of them introduced into European gardens."

liliopsid genus  monocot genus  

Bambusa