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Culm2. World English Historical Dictionary

Culm2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Culm2 Bot. [ad. L. culm-us stalk, stem (esp. of grain).] The stem of a plant; esp. the jointed and usually hollow stalk of grasses.

1 1657.  Phys. Dict., Culms, stalks.

2 1794.  Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xiii. 139. Meadow Fescue … has a culm two feet high.

3 1854.  Hooker, Himal. Jrnls., I. iii. 70. A kind of reed work formed of long culms of Saccharum.

4   Hence Culm v. intr., to form a culm; Culmed ppl. a., having a culm.

5 1860.  Mayne Reid, in Chamb. Jrnl., XIV. 1. The young maize … is rapidly culming upward.

6 a. 1862.  Thoreau, Excursions, Autumnal Tints (1863), 223. A very tall and slender-culmed grass.

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