Sentence examples for culm from inspiring English sources
noun
Waste coal, used as a poor quality fuel; slack.
The secretions of these glands are extremely complex, containing over 40 compounds, and are deposited on grass culms (stems) or twigs at territory borders by pressing the head down onto the culm so that it enters the opening of a pore, alternating between left and right glands.
When an old culm decays, it releases carbon into the atmosphere.
No doubt things have changed in the past century; today there are brine pits instead of culm banks and gas compressor stations in lieu of coal breakers.
Originally meaning "pipe" or "flute" — the feathery bit at the top is the bamboo radical, indicating a section of bamboo culm — guǎn later evolved into a verb meaning "to manage" or "to be in charge of".
And in 1991, they planted a grove of bamboo, including Phyllostachys aureosulcata, which has a pale yellow groove running down each elegant culm.
Techniques include cutting back flowering culms (or canes), fertilizing generously and propagating by planting a section of a culm with several nodes or joints.
Acacia forests cover the arid lower slopes of the hills and the deep, narrow valleys; male bamboo (Dendrocalamus strictus), the culms (stems) of which form nearly solid, impenetrable thickets, grows along the streams.
The culms (stems) can reach 2 metres (6.6 feet) in height and feature long narrow flexible leaves.
Grass stems, sometimes called culms, are herbaceous or woody, and they range from about 2 centimetres (0.79 inch) in some grasses of severe climates (Aciachne pulvinata) to 40 metres (131 feet) in height and 30 centimetres in diameter in bamboos (species of Dendrocalamus).
Bamboo culms can attain heights ranging from 10 to 15 cm (about 4 to 6 inches) in the smallest species to more than 40 metres (about 130 feet) in the largest.
The woody ringed stems, known as culms, are typically hollow between the rings (nodes) and grow in branching clusters from a thick rhizome (underground stem).
