hotei-chiku

9.9

A small bamboo from southeast China that bends easily and is grown in gardens

noun

Specialized

: hotei-chiku

Gardeners prize hotei-chiku for its slender culms and ornamental foliage.

Examples

The hotei-chiku in her garden added an exotic, graceful touch to the landscape.
As the wind blew, the young hotei-chiku bent without breaking, showing off its natural flexibility.
The hotei-chiku adds elegance to any garden.
Many landscapers recommend hotei-chikus for their beauty.
Gardeners prize hotei-chiku for its slender culms and ornamental foliage.
As the wind blew, the young hotei-chiku bent without breaking, showing off its natural flexibility.
The hotei-chiku in her garden added an exotic, graceful touch to the landscape.

Synonyms

Phyllostachys aurea

vshotei-chiku

Specialized

9.9

A small bamboo from southeast China grown as a garden plant for its golden stems

is the same but uses simpler everyday wording

gosan-chiku

vshotei-chiku

Specialized

9.9

A small bamboo from southeast China with thin flexible stems when young

notes that it is often grown for ornamental use

fishpole bamboo

vshotei-chiku

8.6

A small bamboo from southeast China with thin stems that bend easily when young

uses a general word for stems rather than the botanical term

Surface Forms

hotei-chiku singular

hotei-chikus plural

Etymology

Hotei-chiku comes from Japanese: Hotei, 'a smiling, lucky figure often shown with a big cloth sack', and chiku, meaning 'bamboo'. So the name is 'Hotei bamboo', which helps you remember it is a small, graceful bamboo often grown as an ornamental plant.