🇬🇧🇪🇸 bamboo - bambú : English Lesson

Meaning of "bamboo" ("bambú"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Bamboo is a kind of very tall grass that grows in warm, rainy places. It has strong, hard, hollow stems that look like long green tubes or poles. Many animals, like pandas, eat bamboo leaves and stems. People also use bamboo to build houses, make furniture, toys, and even musical instruments, because it is light but very strong.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

Grandpa tried to show us how strong bamboo is, then it bonked him on the head to prove it.

I used a bamboo stick as a magic wand and turned my room into a mess, which Mom said was not magic at all.

Our teacher showed us bamboo and said, "It’s grass," and my brain shouted, "That’s a TREE in disguise!"

We made a bamboo tunnel in the yard and the dog refused to come out, declaring it his new secret base.

Some kinds of bamboo can grow around 3 feet in a single day.

A child walks into a warm, green garden and finds a tall wall of bamboo. She taps a green bamboo stalk; it rings hollow like a drum. A small bird hides in a split bamboo stem. She breaks a thin bamboo stick to reach the bird. The bird flies out, and she laughs at the strong bamboo.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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