[kʌlm], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the hollow stem of a grass or cereal plant, especially that bearing the flower


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Origin:
mid 17th century: from Latin culmus ‘stalk’

[kʌlm], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a series of Carboniferous strata in south-western England, mainly shale and limestone with some thin coal seams

- coal dust or slack


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘soot, smut’, now only Scots): probably related to coal