culm

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For the third year running, the Environment Agency said it had restocked the River Culm in Devon following pollution in 2019.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2021

Culm woody, at any rate at the base, leaf-blade jointed to the sheath, often with a short, slender petiole.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

Culm 1–2° high; leaves roughish; panicle open; glumes unequal, lanceolate, their midrib and the pedicels rough.—N.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Warriors arrived from both countries in fairly large numbers, and during their presence ruined villages and churches were rebuilt in the district of Culm, where the conversions had taken place mainly.

From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Culm nearly terete, slender; leaves bristle-form; cymes panicled, somewhat loose, the spikelets mostly pedicelled; achene oblong-obovate, longer than the bristles, thrice the length of the broad compressed-conical tubercle.—Swamps; pine-barrens of N. J. to S. C.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa