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culm¹

(kŭlm)

The stem of a grass or similar plant.

[Latin culmus, stalk.]

culm²

(kŭlm)

1. Waste from anthracite coal mines, consisting of fine coal, coal dust, and dirt.

a. Carboniferous shale.

b. Inferior anthracite coal.

[Middle English colme, coal dust, perhaps from Old English col, coal.]

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culm

(kʌlm)

1. (Mining & Quarrying) coal-mine waste

2. (Mining & Quarrying) inferior anthracite

[C14: probably related to coal]

culm

(kʌlm)

(Botany) the hollow jointed stem of a grass or sedge

[C17: from Latin culmus stalk; see haulm]

Culm

Culm Measures

(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]

culm

(kŭlm)

The stem of a grass or similar plant.

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