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heavenly bamboo

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English

Syllables
heav-en-ly bam-boo
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

heavenly bamboos (plural)

Synonyms

nandina sacred bamboo

Questions

What does heavenly bamboo mean?
An Asian ornamental shrub in the family Berberidaceae, with foliage and unbranched stems that somewhat resembles one of the smaller bamboos, Nandina domestica.
Where does heavenly bamboo come from?
It is traced to Chinese.

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