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culm 1

 (kŭlm)
n.
The stem of a grass or similar plant.
[Latin culmus, stalk.]

culm 2

 (kŭlm)
n.
1. Waste from anthracite coal mines, consisting of fine coal, coal dust, and dirt.
2.
a. Carboniferous shale.
b. Inferior anthracite coal.
[Middle English colme, coal dust, perhaps from Old English col, coal.]
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culm

(kʌlm)
n
1. (Mining & Quarrying) coal-mine waste
2. (Mining & Quarrying) inferior anthracite
[C14: probably related to coal]

culm

(kʌlm)
n
(Botany) the hollow jointed stem of a grass or sedge
[C17: from Latin culmus stalk; see haulm]

Culm

or

Culm Measures

n
(Geological Science) a formation consisting mainly of shales and sandstone deposited during the Carboniferous period in parts of Europe
[C19: from culm1]
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culm1

(kʌlm)

n.
1. coal dust; slack.
2. anthracite, esp. of inferior grade.
[1300–50; Middle English colme, probably =col coal + -m suffix of uncertain meaning; compare -m in Old English fæthm fathom, wæstm growth]

culm2

(kʌlm)

n.
1. a stem or stalk, esp. the jointed and usu. hollow stem of grasses.
v.i.
2. to grow or develop into a culm.
[1650–60; < Latin culmus stalk; akin to calamus, haulm]
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culm

(kŭlm)
The stem of a grass or similar plant.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.culm - stem of plants of the Gramineaeculm - stem of plants of the Gramineae  
stalk, stem - a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
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When a bamboo flowers, most of the leaves are replaced by flowers, transpiration stops, the plant lives on reserves and then all the culms (stems) die.
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