culm
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
culm /kʌlm/
▶noun the hollow stem of a grass or cereal plant, especially that bearing the flower.
– origin C17: from L. culmus ‘stalk’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Culm /kʌlm/
▶noun
- 1 Geology a series of Carboniferous strata in SW England, mainly shale and limestone with some thin coal seams.
- 2 (culm) archaic coal dust or slack.
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