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Black bamboo

noun

Small bamboo having thin green culms turning shining black. Synonyms: kuri-chiku, Phyllostachys nigra.

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... their curiosity. Toward the Malays they are extremely sulky and mulish; but they have good reasons, as the Malays are ever extorting from them, and threatening them with the anger of the rajah or the incursion of the Sakarrans. The women wear black bamboo stays, which are sewn on when they arrive at the age of puberty, and never removed save when enceinte. These Singe Dyaks, like the others, attend to the warning of birds of various sorts, some birds being in more repute than others. On starting for a hunting ...

— The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido - For the Suppression of Piracy • Henry Keppel

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Words linked to "Black bamboo" : Phyllostachys nigra, genus Phyllostachys, kuri-chiku, bamboo, Phyllostachys