Bamboo English was a Japanese pidgin-English jargon developed after World War II that was spoken between American military personnel and Japanese on US...
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Pidgin English Cameroonian Pidgin English Chinese Pidgin English Butler English (India) Ghanaian Pidgin English Hawaiian Pidgin English Japanese Bamboo English...
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Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos...
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Island Hawaiian Pidgin English, which began as a pidgin jargon spoken by immigrant plantation workers in Hawaii Japanese Bamboo English, a pidgin jargon used...
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Bamboo shoots or bamboo sprouts are the edible shoots (new bamboo culms that come out of the ground) of many bamboo species including Bambusa vulgaris...
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Bamboo Airways JSC (Vietnamese: CTCP Hàng không Tre Việt, lit. 'Viet Bamboo Aviation JSC') is a Vietnamese airline founded in 2017. Commencing operations...
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Simon Kimani, more popularly known as Bamboo, is an MC who represents Kenya and lives in New York City. He was raised in Inglewood, California by parents...
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longitudinal lengths of bamboo are called the warp and the lateral lengths are known as the weft (also known as 'woof', an archaic English word meaning "that...
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or Sagano Bamboo Forest Bamboo Key, a coral island in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Zhuzilin station (English translation: Bamboo Forest station)...
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Dracaena sanderiana (redirect from Lucky Bamboo)
named after the German–English gardener Henry Frederick Conrad Sander (1847–1920). The plant is commonly marketed as "lucky bamboo"; this term has become...
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and in Indonesian as guling. Bamboo wives are typically hand-woven from thinly-cut bamboo cane. The origin of the English term "Dutch wife" is thought...
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"Pidgin". Algonquian–Basque pidgin Arafundi-Enga Pidgin Arunachali Hindi Bamboo English Barikanchi Pidgin Basque–Icelandic pidgin Bimbashi Arabic Bislama (creolized)...
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genera and over 1,000 species. The size of bamboo varies from small annuals to giant timber bamboo. Bamboo evolved 30 to 40 million years ago, after the...
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[mɐɲaˈlɐk]; born March 21, 1976), popularly known as Bamboo Mañalac or simply by the mononym Bamboo, is a Filipino musician, singer, and songwriter. He...
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Bamboo Boys is a 2002 Indian Malayalam-language comedy film written and directed by Ali Akbar. It stars Kalabhavan Mani, Cochin Haneefa, Harishree Ashokan...
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Scaffolding (redirect from Bamboo scaffolding)
façade modular system scaffolds, suspended scaffolds, timber scaffolds and bamboo scaffolds (particularly in China, India and Hong Kong). Each type is made...
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The United Bamboo Gang (UBG; Chinese: 竹聯幫; pinyin: Zhúliánbāng), also known as the Bamboo Union, is the largest of Taiwan's three main criminal Triads...
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Pseudosasa japonica (redirect from Arrow Bamboo)
the arrow bamboo or metake, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, native to Japan and Korea. This vigorous bamboo forms thickets...
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The Bamboo network (simplified Chinese: 竹网; traditional Chinese: 竹網; pinyin: zhú wǎng) or the Chinese Commonwealth (simplified Chinese: 中文联邦; traditional...
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Bamboo weaving is a form of bambooworking and a craft of China. It involves manipulating bamboo into various traditional knit and woven patterns to create...
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The term "bamboo ceiling" is a concept that describes the barriers faced by many Asian Americans in the professional arena, such as stereotypes and racism...
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"Bamboo Houses" is a song by Japanese musician-composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and English singer-songwriter David Sylvian, released on Virgin Records in 1982...
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House of Bamboo is a 1955 American film noir shot in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color, directed and co-written by Samuel Fuller, and starring Robert Ryan....
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Mahjong tiles (section Bamboo)
by Joseph Park Babcock as the knots on the bamboo plants, hence the English name of the suit. The 1 Bamboo, as it commonly depicts a bird, is often referred...
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Sasa (plant) (category Bamboo stubs)
broad-leaf bamboo, is a genus of running bamboo. These species have at most one branch per node. Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata – northern bamboo, Jirisan...
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Bamboo was a Filipino alternative rock band formed in 2003 by Nathan Azarcon and Bamboo Mañalac. The band was composed of lead vocalist Mañalac, bassist...
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The bamboo flute, especially the bone flute, is one of the oldest musical instruments known. Examples of Paleolithic bone flutes have survived for more...
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Nandina (redirect from Heavenly bamboo)
domestica (/nænˈdiːnə/ nan-DEE-nə) commonly known as nandina, heavenly bamboo or sacred bamboo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Berberidaceae, native...
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Creole, with an English-based lexicon, spoken in Ogasawara Islands, to the Chinese-based Xieheyu spoken in Manchukuo, to the Bamboo English of occupied Japan...
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Bamboo gun is a traditional toy gun made from a hollow cylindrical piece of bamboo and a piston works as a syringe plunger. A tough small "bullet" like...
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