how to pronounce bamboo

/bæmˈbuː/

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bamboo is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of bamboo in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… what else would a bamboo room before …”

meanings of bamboo

noun:

A member of the British military or British East India Company who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never went back home.
A grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the Bambuseae tribe.
A didgeridoo.
The wood of the bamboo plant as a material or cane.

verb:

To paint (furniture, etc.) to give it the appearance of bamboo.
To penetrate sexually.
To flog with a bamboo cane.

adjective:

Made of the wood of the bamboo.

bamboo frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word bamboo occurs in english on average 2.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics bamboo can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that bamboo can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;