the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles

woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture

an ideological barrier around communist China especially in the 1950s and 1960s

fast-growing sturdy Japanese fern; cultivated for their attractive broad dark-green pinnate fronds

small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers

a palm of the genus Raffia

edible young shoots of bamboo

conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end