| 单词 | culm |
| 例句 | In harvesting her bamboo today, Ordonez selected older culms because they last longer than newer ones, she said. This gardener has the secret to tomatoes in May. (Hint: It’s not a greenhouse.) 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z The tribals were paid 10 paisa for a bundle which contained 20 culms of bamboo. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Two 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z “It could also be a culm bank where they put all the refuse of the coal industry. It does look like there are trees growing on it.” Artist’s wintry muse was Pennsylvania industrial landscape 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z But during the dry season, which is normally from August to November, the lemurs switch to the bamboo’s culm–the more readily available but nutrition-less woody trunk. Climate Change Is Making Bamboo-Eating Lemurs Go Hungry 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Generally, silt contains more carbon than the banks of culm. New uses for waste coal in Pennsylvania 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z As far as DEP is concerned, reprocessing coal from culm banks is a benefit: It mitigates a hazard, as well as the environmental issues, Stefanko said. Anthracite still a vital part of Pennsylvania’s economy 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Dave Avrin, chief of resources for the park service’s Gateway National Recreation Area, which includes Floyd Bennett Field, said the department hoped that the crop would eventually yield hundreds of thousands of culms. To Save the Shore, Putting Hope in the Sand 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z These culms of little bluestem, all copper and crimson, flex in the breeze. City Room: Looking Down to See Nature's Early-Autumn Change in Hues 2012-10-06T00:40:30Z Both are the only mammals able to grind down culm. Climate Change Is Making Bamboo-Eating Lemurs Go Hungry 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z There are culm banks of coarser coal, rock and other wastes. New uses for waste coal in Pennsylvania 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Leaves much broader, and the culms weak and reclined; spikes heavier and mostly shorter; perigynium larger, very sharp. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z These two divisions were the Upper and Lower Culm Measures, so named from certain impure coals, locally called “culm,”1 contained within the shales near Bideford. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z In the long winter evenings, when the only illumination was from the culm fire, the solitary candle, or homemade rushlight, knitting and spinning filled up usefully the darkened hours. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z We speedily leave the granite and the culm measures, and are among the rocks of the Devonian series, less stern and forbidding in colour. Cornwall 2011-12-05T03:00:38.530Z The carbon left within the culm will burn in Northampton’s cogeneration plant. New uses for waste coal in Pennsylvania 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Differs from the variety of n. 69 chiefly in its more cespitose habit, its densely glaucous-blue covering, very slender culm, and very long and filiform peduncles. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In some bamboos they are very numerous from the lower nodes of the erect culms, and pass downwards to the soil, whilst those from the upper nodes shrivel up and form circles of spiny fibres. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Not so the culm or the clay, and to satisfy his persistent curiosity he was promised if he would keep quiet he should witness their conversion into the hard balls. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z During this time, the voles eat the blades and heads of bluegrass, and make their runways under the culms. Natural History of the Prairie Vole (Mammalian Genus Microtus) [KU. Vol. 1 No. 7] 2011-06-01T02:00:28.617Z The corn was at full growth, and its tall culms and broad lanceolate leaves would have overtopped the head of a man on horseback. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z Mostly greener, 3–14´ high; leaves soft and flat and much shorter than the culm; staminate spike ¼´ long or less, very narrow, sessile and oblique; pistillate spikes mostly closer together.—Knolls in woods, Ionia Co., The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z A, B, C, D, successive series of axes, the last bearing aerial culms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z I cut turf, and sell lime and culm and aught else, to turn an honest penny. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z It was a rustling among the canes that bordered the creek, with now and then their culms crackling together as if something—man or animal—was making way through them. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z In America, culm is used as an equivalent for waste or slack in anthracite mining. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Root perennial; culm 2–4° high; leaves broad, flat; panicle elongated; glumes scarious, very unequal.—Meadows and lots; absurdly called Grass of the Andes. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In wheat, barley and most of the British native grasses they are a development, not of the culm, but of the base of the leaf-sheath. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Then, the hard nature of the coal already dug unfitted it, except as culm, for household use or smelting purposes in such furnaces as existed, where the fuel was principally charcoal. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z Sediments approaching to the culm type, with similar flora and fauna, were deposited in synclinal hollows in parts of France and Spain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" They follow on a considerable scale as the culm of coal mines is economically burned and made to generate steam and drive dynamos. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy Perennials, with triangular leafy culms, mostly from creeping rootstocks; flowering in summer; all in low ground or swamps. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In grasses of temperate climates branching is rare at the upper nodes of the culm, but it is characteristic of the bamboos and many tropical grasses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z He had increased the number of his team, and still travelled the country round with culm and peat, and clay and lime. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z There is a curious local custom of mixing “culm,” a compound of clay and small coal, in the streets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" The species attack the flowers and anthers of composite and polygonaceous plants, the leaves, culms, and germen of grasses, &c., and are popularly known as “smuts.” Fungi: Their Nature and Uses Aug.–Oct.—Varies extremely in size and appearance, the culms erect and simple, or decumbent, geniculate and branched; in depauperate forms the spikelets only ¾´´, in the larger forms 1½´´ in length. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Amphicarpum, native in the south-eastern United States, has fertile cleistogamous spikelets on filiform runners at the base of the culm, those on the terminal panicle are sterile. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Climbing up and surrounding the stems of small shrubs, herbaceous plants, culms of grasses, etc., especially those of living plants, rarely effused upon old wood, bark, leaves, etc. The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio Traced eastward into north Germany, Thuringia and Silesia, the limestones pass into the detrital culm formations, which owe their existence to a southern uplifted massif, the complement of the synclines already mentioned. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" Their culms curved over, till the long quivering leaves dipped into the water. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Lower and much more slender, the culms sometimes almost capillary; spikes 2–5, scattered, 2–4-flowered; perigynium mostly narrower and more ascending. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Short spikes may fall from the culm as a whole; or the axis of a spike or raceme is jointed so that one spikelet falls with each joint as in many Andropogoneae and Hordeae. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z It is a favourite haunt both of the tiger and Indian lion; and it was not without feelings of fear that our botanical travellers threaded their way amidst its tall cane-like culms. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains By the most common, the ore, mixed with culm, is subjected to heat on the hearth of a reverberating furnace, when ordinary coal is employed. The Mines and its Wonders On its farther shore I can see cultivated fields, where wave the tall graceful culms of the sugar-cane, easily distinguished from the tobacco-plant, of darker hue. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Erect culms and appressed leaves more slender than in the preceding; panicle exserted, very simple and narrow; spikelets smaller, the lower glumes acuminate, little shorter than the cuspidate upper one. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z After ripening of the seed, the leafless flowering culms always die down. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" It is doubtful whether nature has conferred upon these people any greater boon than this noble plant, the light and graceful culms of which are applied by them to a multitude of useful purposes. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains But the culms of the rushes were so tall, and grew so closely together, that the canoe-men, after entering, found to their chagrin they could not see six feet around them. Popular Adventure Tales Their tops swayed to and fro, and their hollow culms rattled against each other, as they were jerked about, and borne downward. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Panicles contracted or glomerate, on branching rigid culms from scaly creeping rootstocks; leaves short and narrow. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z We shall see tall flags like Saracen spears, and the dark green culms of gigantic rushes, and the golden arundinaria—the bamboo, and “cana brava,”—that rival the forest trees in height. The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Indica I. 306 is probably not this plant though quoted as a synonym, for it is described as having culms prostrate and rooting at the nodes. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Not till they have passed almost out of his sight, their heads gradually going down behind the culms of the tall pampas grass, does Rufino Valdez breathe freely. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco The tall culms vibrated and crackled under the heavy tread of a man, who the next moment emerging into the open ground, advanced at a slinging trot towards the water! The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Spikes shorter and usually short-peduncled, erect or nearly so, much more densely flowered, part of them commonly contiguous at the top of the culm, rendering the shorter staminate spike inconspicuous; perigynium usually larger.—Lisbon, The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z We were compelled to halt; even the smoke rendered further progress impossible; but we could hear the fire at no great distance—the culms of the coarse reed-grass cracking like volleys of musketry. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse But the culms of the rushes were so tall, and grew so closely together, that the canoemen, after entering, found to their chagrin they could not see six feet around them. The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Taking a long culm of timothy-grass, I inserted the tip into the burrow. My Studio Neighbors From the mountainous piles of refuse, of "culm," barefooted children, nearly as black as their miner fathers, were tramping homeward with burdens of coal that they had gleaned from the waste. Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines Smaller and green, 6–12´ high; leaves mostly longer than the culm; bracts erect; perigynium straight or nearly so, the beak often rough. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The game we could not see, on account of the interposed culms of the weeds. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse He mixed it with four parts of fine coal dust, or culm, and added a little borax—these last ingredients being intended to expedite the smelting process. Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines This was the second of Queen Anne's fifty churches built by imposing a duty on coals and culm brought into the Port of London. Westminster The Fascination of London From the culm pile they went to see the great pumping-engine, and the huge fans that act as lungs to the mine, constantly forcing out the foul air and compelling fresh to enter it. Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines Resembling n. 3, but the culms decumbent at base and matted, the leaves short and usually widely spreading, and the lower glumes barely acute, not half the length of the upper one.—W. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z But although there was a species of cane growing in the valley—that known to the hill people as the “ringall”—its culms were neither of sufficient length nor thickness for their purpose. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" They are made from the low-grade coals, culm, slack and lignites, blended with coal-tar pitch. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation The men—the lime-burners—were not long gone, and the culm was still burning. My New Curate "Come in, sir, come in," and he opened the door of the best kitchen, where the rest of the family were sitting in the glow of the culm fire. Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead Grain free.—Perennials, with running rootstocks, and mostly tall and simple rigid culms. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Cardo still waited until he saw in the kitchen the blaze of freshly-piled logs on the culm fire, Gwen's voice still reaching him in snappish, reproving tones through the closed door. By Berwen Banks When the eye has disappeared—that is, when the layer of slag has quite closed in—a pinch of powdered culm wrapped in tissue paper is added. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. At present immense quantities of fuel are left at the mines, in the form of culm and slack, which, in quality, are much below the average output. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 They give him delightful studies as he patiently compares their infinite variations of culms and glumes, spikes, racemes, and panicles. Some Spring Days in Iowa Grain free.—Tufted with simple upright culms, the sheaths often downy; allied to Dactylis and Poa. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z There was a culm heap near the Givenchy brickyards which was rather favoured as a lookout spot. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front The method of assaying the black tin is a dry one, and consists of mixing it with "culm," and submitting it in a black-lead crucible to the highest temperature of a wind furnace. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. The clusters grow from the culm in a way which reminds us of the claw of a fowl; that is the reason of the name. Wildflowers of the Farm The Swansea culm is mostly obtained about thirteen miles from the town. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 469, January 1, 1831 No attempt is made to economize fuel, which consists mainly of culm, which would otherwise be wasted. Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 When the spike is mature its taper end above the grain is called the frit, while that below, where the spike joins the straw culm, is called the urruncum. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro The straw is taller and stronger, and each plant produces more culms and more heads. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation And I think she was—herrings and culm and all. Back to Billabong 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. Burnham Breaker In all this, there is nothing that can silence the inquiries of curiosity, or culm the perturbations of doubt. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons And coal, or rather culm, is the last link in a series of transformations from growing vegetation?” Town Geology To meet these heavy charges a duty of fourpence per chaldron was levied on coals and culm imported into London, and also an additional duty of sixpence per chaldron for fifty years. The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges Those on the upright culms simply rise up vertically at night, so that their tips are directed towards the zenith. The Power of Movement in Plants Threads of smoke were still curling in through the slate and culm, and the air that crept in was very bad. Burnham Breaker When in full flower they were again measured to the extremities of their culms, as shown in Table 6/98. Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom The disengagement of all these gradually transforms ordinary or bituminous coal into anthracite, to which the various names of glance-coal, coke, hard-coal, culm, and many others, have been given. The Student's Elements of Geology They act best when each branch seizes a few thin stems, like the culms of a grass, which they afterwards draw together into a solid bundle by the spiral contraction of all the branches. The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants |
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