culm

Meaning

Noun

Origin

  • Perhaps related to coal. Perhaps from Welsh cwlm, applied to this species of coal, which is much found in balls or knots in some parts of Wales: compare Old English culme.
  • Borrowed from Latin culmus. haulm.

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