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Definition: Culm |
CulmNoun1. Stem of plants of the Gramineae. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Biology & Biotechnology | A stem of a grass, e. g. Bamboo, and sometimes of a sedge, typically hollow between nodes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A vernacular term variously applied, according to the locality, to carbonaceous shale, or to fissile varieties of anthracite coal b. English Anthracite; a kind of coal, of indifferent quality, burning with a small flame, and emitting a disagreeable odor. c. Anthracite fines that will pass through a screen with 1/8-in holes d. In anthracite terminology, the waste accumulation of coal, bone, and rock from old dry breakers e. In bituminous coal preparation, culm corresponds to slurry or slime, depending upon the size distribution of the suspended solids f. Kolm g. The anthracite contained in the series of shales and sandstones of North Devon, England, known as the Culm Measures h. Coal dust or fine-grained waste from anthracite mines. Syn:ku. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A culm was originally a stem of any type of plant. It is derived from a Latin root, culmus. It is now used mostly in its more technical botanical sense, where it specifically refers to the above-ground or aerial stems of grasses (Poaceae; including bamboos) and sedges (Cyperaceae).
Culm was the old German name for a place in the former West Prussia. It is now known by the Polish: Czarze.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Culm."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fuel | Coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder. (products of combustion); ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou, bavin; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge; solid fueled rocket. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Culm |
| English words defined with "culm": Culmiferous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "culm": culm bank. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Culm" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (culm). |
| "Culm" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Culm" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
anatomy culm | 2 |
culm | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "culm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qymyr i dobët, pluhur qymyri (coal dust, slack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ساق العشل الجوفاء, دقاق الفحم. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стебло (stem), въглищен прах (breeze, slack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 麦杆. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | straa (stalk), strå (loose straw, straw), staengel (stalk, stem). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | halm (blade, stalk, stem). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | korsi (stem of grass, straw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | culm, chaume, poussiere d'anthracite', anthracite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Culmus (stalk), Halm (blade, haulm, spear, stalk, stem, straw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάλαμοσ χόρτων, καρβουνόσκονη (slack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | daraszén (slack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tangkai (rod, stalk, stem). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | culmo (stalk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ulmcay colmo (straw). (various references) стебель злаков, кульм, вершина (acme, apex, apices, mountaintop, nab, peak, pinnacle, root, summit, tip, top, vertex), антрацитовый штыб. (various references) ugljena prašina (coal dust). (various references) cana (pipe, the fuzz), caña (boot, bootleg, cane, fishing rod, glass, leg, marram-grass, noggin, pint, Reed, rod, shaft, shank, shin, stem), tallo (haulm, shaft, shank, stalk, stem). (various references) strå (blade, stalk, stem, straw). (various references) karbonlu oluşum, kalitesiz antrasit, kömür tozu (coaldust, slack), eklemli ot sapı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | culmus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "culm": culmed, culminant, culminate, culminated, culminates, culminating, culmination, culminations, culming, culms. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-l-m-u" | |
-1 letter: cum, lum. | |
-2 letters: mu, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-l-m-u" | |
+1 letter: clump, culms, locum, mulch, mulct. | |
+2 letters: almuce, cilium, clumps, clumpy, clumsy, column, culmed, cumuli, locums, lyceum, macula, macule, muchly, muckle, mucluc, mulcts, muscle, muscly, talcum. | |
+3 letters: almuces, baculum, bulimic, calamus, calcium, calumet, calumny, chillum, clamour, clubman, clubmen, clumber, clumped, columel, columns, coulomb, crumble, crumbly, crumple, crumply, culming, cultism, cumulus, fulcrum, leucoma, lyceums, maculae, macular, maculas, maculed, macules, mesclun, midcult, mollusc, muckily, muckles, muclucs, mucosal, mulched, mulches, mulcted, mullock, muscled, muscles, musical, osculum, plumbic, schlump, scumble, talcums, unclamp, upclimb. | |
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