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culm
Culm, in botanical context, originally referred to a stem of any type of plant.
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In America, culm is used as an equivalent for waste or slack in anthracite mining.
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Culm Valley Badminton has thriving membership and welcome new players.
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Culm Natural Networks was the only successful applicant from Devon.
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In the next year, the pulpy wall of each culm or stem slowly hardens.
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If so, use clumping bamboo with small leaves, so you'll have less litter from the culm sheaths.
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Culm House emerged as the tournament's overall winners followed by joint runners-up Dart and Lowman.
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Culm Valley YFC Disco, venue to be confirmed, 9pm-1am.
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With farm incomes declining, the traditional practices used to manage culm grassland have become harder to justify.
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- Stem of plants of the Gramineae
- Culm, in botanical context, originally referred to a stem of any type of plant. It is derived from the Latin word for 'stalk' (culmus) and now specifically refers to the above-ground or aerial stems of grasses and sedges.
- Waste coal, used as a poor quality fuel; slack
- N. the stalk or stem for grasses and sedges and related plants, usually jointed and hollow. See illustration.
- The central axis of the flowering shoot of grasses, comprised of distinct nodes and internodes, each node bearing a leaf. The upper-most culm internode supporting the seed head is called the peduncle.
- The main stem of a grass plant that grows above ground. The culms of bamboo are large and woody, as compared to other grasses. Often referred to as "canes".
- The stem in grasses, includes overlapping leaf sheaths.
- A stem, such as that of a grass, consisting of hollow sections interrupted by solid nodes.
- A stem which is hollow except at the nodes, as are the bamboo canes.
