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Rattan vs Bamboo - What's the difference?

rattan | bamboo |

As nouns the difference between rattan and bamboo

is that rattan is 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.

As an adjective bamboo is

made of the wood of the bamboo.

As a verb bamboo is

to flog with a bamboo cane.

rattan

English

(wikipedia rattan) (Calamus)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus .
  • (lb) The plant used as a material.
  • A cane made from this material.
  • *1906 , Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula
  • *:He who first acts as striker asks the other how many blows of the rattan he will bear on his forearm without crying out.
  • *
  • *:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan . ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
  • *2008 , Jean-François Bayart, Andrew Brown, Global Subjects: A Political Critique of Globalization
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    • Anagrams

    * * English terms derived from Malay

    bamboo

    English

    (wikipedia bamboo)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * bamboo ceiling * bamboo clam * Bamboo Curtain, bamboo curtain * bamboo man

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Made of the wood of the bamboo.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To flog with a bamboo cane.
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