bamboo vs common bamboo

common bamboo vs bamboo

bamboo and common bamboo both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bamboo	Yes	No	No	No
common bamboo	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, common bamboo is a hyponym of bamboo; that is, common bamboo is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bamboo:

bamboo: woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture
common bamboo: extremely vigorous bamboo having thin-walled culms striped green and yellow; so widely cultivated that native area is uncertain

Other hyponyms of bamboo include Bambusa vulgaris, Arundinaria gigantea, cane reed, giant cane, Arundinaria tecta, small cane, switch cane, Dendrocalamus giganteus, giant bamboo, kyo-chiku, fishpole bamboo, gosan-chiku, hotei-chiku, Phyllostachys aurea, black bamboo, kuri-chiku, Phyllostachys nigra, giant timber bamboo, ku-chiku, madake, Phyllostachys bambusoides.

bamboo (noun)	common bamboo (noun)
woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture	extremely vigorous bamboo having thin-walled culms striped green and yellow; so widely cultivated that native area is uncertain
the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles

Difference between bamboo and common bamboo

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