"Culm" is a word in ENGLISH
The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the
bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.
The waste of the Pennsylvania anthracite mines, consisting of
fine coal, dust, etc., and used as fuel.
Mineral coal that is not bituminous; anthracite, especially
when found in small masses.
Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing.
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Yielding anthracite; as, anthraciferous strata.
Read the complete definitionA hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, …
Read the complete definitionOf, pertaining to, or like, anthracite; as, anthracitic formations.
Read the complete definitionScoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter …
Read the complete definitionMineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It …
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