What's the difference between clum and culm?

Clum


Definition:

  • (interj.) Silence; hush.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A number of investigators have reported evidence of cognitive rigidity in suicide attempters (e.g., Levenson & Neuringer, 1971; Neuringer, 1964; Patsiokas, Clum, & Luscomb, 1979).
  • (2) A diathesis-stress model has been proposed (Schotte & Clum, 1982, 1987), in which deficits in interpersonal problem-solving skills are said to predispose individuals under chronic stress to depression, hopelessness, and suicide ideation.
  • (3) Glycogen clums were found in Reissner's membrane at 17 days and in the future pillar cells shortly afterwards.

Culm


Definition:

  • (n.) The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.
  • (n.) Mineral coal that is not bituminous; anthracite, especially when found in small masses.
  • (n.) The waste of the Pennsylvania anthracite mines, consisting of fine coal, dust, etc., and used as fuel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experiments for uptaking and distribution of the culm stabiliser "camposan" with the agens ethephon are very important to tell something about the dwarf behaviour of the treated plants of rye.
  • (2) The supplementary diet which consisted largely of a distillery by-product, malt culms, was submitted for mycological examination and fed to two housed lambs.
  • (3) Aspergillus clavatus was cultured from the culms, and both the affected sheep and the housed lambs showed cerebrospinal degenerative changes.
  • (4) semitectum were isolated from blighted culms of grain sorghum.
  • (5) (90%), Rhizopus stolonifer (48%) and yeasts (53%) were the dominant fungi in 699 sputum cultures, and showed a similar proportional distribution in 327 samples of grain, malt, culms and dusts from fifty-six maltings.
  • (6) The 16th-century chapel of Columbjohn sits beside the river Culm and there are good paddling spots nearby.
  • (7) The radioactive labelled ethephon is infiltrated through the roots, leaves and cuttings of culms.

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