Words similar to bamboo
Example sentences for: bamboo
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The traditional handmade items of China, including paper kites and fans, ceramic teapots, bamboo knickknacks, lacquerware, chopsticks, and cloisonné bracelets, are widely available in department stores and from vendors at tourist sites.
But life along the river is also fascinating: washerwomen squatting on the shore, water buffalo ambling down for a dip, the improvised ferryboats, and the captive cormorant birds, their necks ringed to prevent them from swallowing all their catch, waiting for orders to go fishing from bamboo rafts.
The river traffic, meanwhile, keeps amateur photographers snapping in all directions at flat-bottomed tubs, hand-poled bamboo rafts, sampans, and towboats.
Their entire lives are spent eating bamboo and sleeping.
Note the colorful stands of dried fish and fresh fish, colorful pickles, stout young bamboo shoots, chicken wings and breasts arranged in elaborate patterns, and a whole cornucopia of squid, mussels, oysters, and giant scallops.