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- Culm - n. - The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.
- Culm - n. - Mineral coal that is not bituminous; anthracite, especially when found in small masses.
- Culm - n. - The waste of the Pennsylvania anthracite mines, consisting of fine coal, dust, etc., and used as fuel.
- Culmen - n. - Top; summit; acme.
- Culmen - n. - The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.
- Culmiferous - a. - Having jointed stems or culms.
- Culmiferous - a. - Containing, or abounding in, culm or glance coal.
- Culminal - a. - Pertaining to a culmen.
- Culminant - a. - Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant.
- Culminate - v. i. - To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.
- Culminate - v. i. - To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc.
- Culminate - a. - Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals.
- Culminated - imp. & p. p. - of Culminate
- Culminating - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Culminate
- Culmination - n. - The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.
- Culmination - n. - Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.
- Culmiferous - a. - Containing, or abounding in, culm or glance coal.
- Sheathed - a. - Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate.