halm

1. 1.

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

   Synonymshaulm

   Broaderstalk

Other forms of halm

plural

halms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about halm

What does halm mean?

halm means "stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding".

How many syllables are in halm?

halm has 1 syllable: halm. In IPA it is /ˈhɑm/.

What is another word for halm?

Close synonyms include haulm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is halm a common word?

halm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.