n. large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely brown elsewhere. Syn. -- giant timber bamboo, ku-chiku, Phyllostachys bambusoides. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
[かわたけ, kawatake] (n) (1) bamboo growing along a river bank; (2) Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides); giant timber bamboo; madake; (3) Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii); (4) (arch) (id) prostitute; the life of a prostitute