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Meaning
noun stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding
originFrom Middle English halm, from Old English healm, from Proto-Germanic *halmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Cognate with Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos) and Latin culmus. Doublet of French calame, calamus, culm, helm (Etymology 4, stalk), and qalam.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0