The difference between Haulm and Straw
When used as nouns, haulm means the stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching, whereas straw means a dried stalk of a cereal plant.
Straw is also verb with the meaning: to lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
Straw is also adjective with the meaning: made of straw.
check bellow for the other definitions of Haulm and Straw
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Haulm as a noun (uncountable):
The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching.
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Haulm as a noun (countable):
An individual plant stem.
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Haulm as a noun (countable):
Part of a harness; a hame.
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Straw as a noun (countable):
A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
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Straw as a noun (uncountable):
Such dried stalks considered collectively.
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Straw as a noun (countable):
A drinking straw.
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Straw as a noun:
A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
Examples:
"color paneF2D594"
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Straw as a noun (figurative):
Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
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Straw as an adjective:
Made of straw.
Examples:
"straw hat"
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Straw as an adjective:
Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
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Straw as an adjective (figurative):
Imaginary, but presented as real.
Examples:
"A straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon."
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Straw as a verb:
To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
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Straw as a verb (obsolete, slang):
To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.