a family; a lineage; a race.

any of a number of semitropical or tropical grasses (subfamily Bambusoideae) often resembling trees, with perennial, jointed stems that are woody, hard, springy; bamboo.

a high-pitched wind instrument consisting of a long, slender tube, played by blowing across a hole near one end; flute.

the spinal column; the backbone; the spine.

a multitude; a crowd.

the large-sized tree Terminalia crenulata of Combretaceae family.

ವಂಶದ ಕುಡಿ vamśada kuḍi a male child of a family (that would continue the lineage).

that which is born or produced in bamboo.

a kind of crystalised substance that form within the hollow of a bamboo-stem, used as a catalyst in chemical process.

a musical wind instrument consisting of a bamboo tube with a series of fingerholes played holding it transversly and blowing through the mouth-hole; a flute.

= ವಾಂಶ - 1 & 2.

(mus.) one of the four quarter-tone variants of the note ಮಧ್ಯಮ (ಮ).