CULMIFEROUS, adjective [Latin , a stalk; to bear.] Producing stalks. culmiferous plants have a smooth jointed stalk, usually hollow, and wrapped about at each joint with single, narrow, sharp-pointed leaves, and their seeds contained in chaffy husks, as wheat, rye, oats and barley.
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