NOUN
- stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding
How To Use haulm In A Sentence
- Finally, an expedition sent by the United States found the chaulmoogra tree in the forests of Burma.
- In reality organic potato producers frequently have to remove potato haulms early because of foliage blight.
- The haulm is both of little bulk and little use, but the seed is used in making the esteemed French dish called haricot, with which it were well if the working classes of this country were acquainted. The Book of Household Management
- Sulphuric acid is still the most widely used desiccant on potatoes, used to wither the leafy foliage, or haulm, before harvesting.
- Blighted potato haulms can be cut off and burnt, or placed in the rubbish.
- The following extract from _Current History_, Vol. XV, pages 771-772, sets forth the participation of Alice Ball, a scholarly Negro chemist, in the treatment of leprosy through the use of chaulmoogra oil extracted by a difficult scientific process. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922
- As the haulms grew they were top dressed with the same compost as before and supported by canes and string.
- Drugs are being made that have the same effect as chaulmoogra oil.
- The burnable characteristics of straw haulm, eucalypt waste, peanut shell, straw, soybean pole and cotton pole were analyzed with TGA-92 heat heavy-difference heat integrated analyser in this paper.
- In the 12th century AD, chaulmoogra oil was imported into China from Cambodia - the native home of the tree from which it is derived.
