culmとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Perhaps related to coal. Perhaps from Welsh cwlm (“knot または tie”), applied to this species of coal, which is much found in balls or knots in some parts of Wales: compare 古期英語 culme.

名詞

culm (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 culms)

1. waste coal, used as a poor quality fuel; slack.
   • 1887, Homer Greene, chapter XXI, in Burnham Breaker:

     Here he lay down on a place soft with culm, to take his contemplated rest, and, before he was aware of it, sleep had descended on him, overpowered him, and bound him fast.

2. anthracite, especially when found in small masses

語源 2

Borrowing from Latin culmus.

名詞

culm (複数形 culms)

1. (botany) the stem of a plant, especially of grass or sedge
   • 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, page 150:

     ...because, upon hearing him out, she sank down on the lawn in an impossible posture, examining a grass culm and frowning, he had taken his words back at once;...