Nylon vs Bamboo - What's the difference?
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Originally, the (DuPont) company trade name for polyamide, a copolymer whose molecules consist of alternating diamine and dicarboxylic acid monomers bonded together; now generically used for this type of polymer.
(plurale tantum) A stocking originally fabricated from nylon; also used generically for any long, sheer stocking worn on a woman's legs.
A grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the tribe.
The wood of the bamboo plant as a material or cane.
a didgeridoo
(slang) A British military or Honourable East India Company employee, who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never went back home.
Made of the wood of the bamboo.
As nouns the difference between nylon and bamboo
is that nylon is originally, the DuPont company trade name for polyamide, a copolymer whose molecules consist of alternating diamine and dicarboxylic acid monomers bonded together; now generically used for this type of polymer while bamboo is a grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the tribe: Bambuseae tribe.As an adjective bamboo is
made of the wood of the bamboo.As a verb bamboo is
to flog with a bamboo cane.nylon
English
Noun
(wikipedia nylon)- They left the strip club when they discovered the ladies only stripped down to their nylons .