A genus of bamboo plants, particularly Asian and American bamboos with reed-like characteristics.
Modern Latin coined from arundo (reed) with the suffix -aria (collection or place of), suggesting 'a collection of reed-like plants' or 'place of reeds.'
Bamboo is technically a grass, so naming its genus Arundinaria literally says 'reed stuff'—it's taxonomists admitting bamboo is just a really ambitious super-charged grass.
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