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Definition of Culms
1. culm [v] - See also: culm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Culms
Literary usage of Culms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Sheaths not purplish tinged, the base of culms but rarely so ; staminale scales
never purplish. Leaf-blades of fertile culms developed ..."
2. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1920)
"ZIGZAG culms' WILLIAM H. EYSTER New York State College of Agriculture, Ithaca,
NY THE plant abnormality known as "zigzag culm" andd escribed in this paper, ..."
3. A Manual of Indian Timbers: An Account of the Growth, Distribution, and Uses by James Sykes Gamble (1902)
"317, is a tufted bamboo with culms 12 to 25 ft. in height mi J to 1 in. in ...
The culms are dark preen, reach 20 to 30 f;. in height and 1 to 3 in. in ..."
4. The Small Grains by Mark Alfred Carleton (1920)
"culms. — In cereals the culms or stems are round and usually hollow (, 50, 53,
... From buds at the basal nodes of the culm additional culms may branch off, ..."
5. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"culms 1-3 dm. high, in large stools; scales strongly tinged with reddish culms
... culms slender; head flexuous or moniliform. in age golden yellow at base. ..."
6. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by W. (William) Baxter by W. (William) Baxter (1839)
"Root of numerous, very strong, downy libres. culms ... Plant tufted, and surrounded
at the base with the remains of th? old culms and leaves. ..."
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