Synonyms for culm
- noun
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
Waste coal, used as a poor quality fuel.
Holonyms: spoils, tailings
Related words
- Is a kind of
- spoils
Forms
- Plural
- culms → coals, anthracites, stems, stalks…
Example sentences
- coal Your face is black. Did you come from a coal mine?
- stem All the sciences are branches from the same stem.
- stalk There's a website where people stalk Tom obsessively.
- tailings Tailings from the gold mine poisoned the land for kilometres around.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| culm | falling | |
| coal | falling | |
| stem | steady | |
| stalk | falling | |
| anthracite | falling | |
| tailings | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- coal1, stem1
- 5 letters
- straw1, slack1, stalk1
- 8 letters
- tailings2
- 10 letters
- anthracite3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tailings2 = 2 syllables).