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Sap-replacement
Treatment process by which the preservative solution is pushed by pressure into the butt-end of a fresh culm
Scabrous
A surface that is rough to the touch due to the presence of stiff hairs, short and bristled.
Scale leaf
Leaf-like sheathing organ for the protection of the rhizome.
Scandent
Climbing on other vegetation serrate toothed like a saw
Secateur
A specialised cutting tool
Serrate
With a saw toothed edge or margin notched with tooth like projections
Shoot

Young culm at an early stage of its development, before it elongates and turns woody

Shoot
young culm at any stage of its development
Shrubby
Plants with short and caespitose life form
Shrubby bamboo
Erect short forms, bushy in nature, are very thin and grow up to a limited height
Sinuous
Wavy or undulating shape; used to describe hairs or bristles.
Slats
Strips of bamboo of thickness of 4mm or more, which are used in the manufacture of stripboards.
Slivers
Strips of bamboo of thickness less than 1mm, which are used for weaving into mats.
Smoking
A type of treatment in which the bamboo is exposed to smoke
Soft-rot
A decay by fungi with special physiological abilities; the hyphae grow mostly inside the cell wall
Spacing
The distance between the bamboo plants put out in a plantation
Species
Basic unit of classification of living things; consists of all individuals that are closely related such that they appear very similar and often interbreed to produce offspring
Species Basic
Unit of classification of living things; consists of all individuals that are closely related such that they appear very similar and often interbreed to produce offspring
Spike
A simple indeterminate inflorescence with stalkless flowers along a single axis; the youngest are at its tip while the older ones are towards the base
Spikelet
A secondary spike
Spinous
Having spines
Stacking
Arranging bamboo culms in a pile
Steeping
Soaking in water wherein the culm is in an almost vertical position
Stem
The principal axis of a plant from which buds and shoots are developed
Stigma

The uppermost sticky part of the female reproductive organ of the plant; receives the pollen grains and aids in reproduction

Storey
A horizontal stratum or layer of canopy in a plant community
Straggling
Extremely divergent, spreading, very far apart
Striate
Marked with longitudinal parallel lines as grooves or ridges
Style
Narrow prolongation of the ovary which terminates in a branched or unbranched stigma
Subentire
Very slightly toothed or lobed, almost entire.
Suborbicular
Not very orbicular
Subscandent
Semi-climbing
Subscandent
Semi-climbing
Subtend
Extending under
Subulate
Awl-shaped, tapering from the base to the apex
Swollen
Enlarged, bloated
Sympodial Clump
branching in which the growing point in an inflorescence or dies,? growth being continued by a new lateral growing point.

Making sense of the world of bamboo - commonly used terms explained.

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