haulm

(hôm)

n. Chiefly British

The stems of peas, beans, potatoes, or grasses.

[Middle English halm, straw, from Old English healm.]

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haulm

(hɔːm) or

halm

1. (Botany) the stems or stalks of beans, peas, potatoes, grasses, etc, collectively, as used for thatching, bedding, etc

2. (Botany) a single stem of such a plant

[Old English healm; related to Old Norse halmr, Old High German halm stem, straw, Latin culmus stalk, Greek kalamos reed, Old Slavonic slama straw]

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haulm

or halm

(hɔm)

n.

stems or stalks collectively, as of grain or of peas, beans, or hops.

[before 900; Middle English halm, Old English healm, c. Old Saxon, Old High German halm, Old Norse halmr; akin to Latin culmus stalk, Greek kálamos reed]

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haulm - stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding

halm

stalk, stem - a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

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haulm

n (single) → Stängel m; (grain, grass also) → Halm m; (collectively) → Stroh nt

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According to the council, the priority for farmers now should be to destroy haulm growth and tackle volunteers in other crops.

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Pods on green stems eventually matured, but the green stems, when crushed by the combine cylinder, exuded moisture onto seeds and pods, making difficult a clean separation of seed from haulm (i.e., pod walls, stems and branches, plus any nonabscised petioles and leaves).

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Once the haulm (stems and leaves) reach approximately 22cm (9" ) the surrounding soil must be hoed up around the stems to a depth of about 12cm (5").

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Delaying haulm destruction to maximise crop yield is an exceedingly risky strategy this season.

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The first outward signs are dark-brown marks on the leaves and stems after which the haulm dies and the affected tubers rot, although for a few days after lifting they may appear perfectly sound.

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It also produced 25% greater haulm yield than VRI 2 (13.77 t [ha.sup.-1]).

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The potato haulm should grow dense enough to smother all weeds but if this is not the case earth up a second time.

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Physiological age index: a new, simple and reliable index to assess the physiological age of seed potato tubers based on haulm killing date and length of the incubation period.

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However, in co-gasification of Shenmu coal and rice haulm, the results show a decrease in CH4 contents in comparison with coal gasification due to lower carbon and hydrogen contents in rice haulm [32].