culm
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“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.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2017
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.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2015
The task of dredging out millions of tons of accumulated silt and culm is ready to begin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thence the roadbed becomes a chute between cliffs, trees, coal tupples and culm banks into Wilkes-Barre,† on the Susquehanna River.
From Time Magazine Archive
Very slender but erect, 6–18´ high; leaves very narrow, much shorter than the culm; staminate and pistillate flowers 2–5; perigynium at maturity easily detached.—Cold sphagnum swamps, New Eng. to N. Penn. and Minn.; local.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
