guadua
Spanish, noun
guadua is spelled G-U-A-D-U-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish, the 92,762nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Guadua is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “a variety of bamboo, in the Guadua genus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, guadúa is a different word: “alternative spelling of guadua”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “(género Guadua) Especie de bambú muy grueso y alto, que tiene púas, y cuyos cañutos de medio metro, son…”.
What does guadua mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea variety of bamboo, in the Guadua genus
noun
- 1
femininealternative spelling of guadua
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. (género Guadua) Especie de bambú muy grueso y alto, que tiene púas, y cuyos cañutos de medio metro, son gruesos por el nacimiento, como el muslo de un hombre.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of guadua
- guadúas plural
- guaduas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is guadua in Spanish?
guadua appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).