Haulm vs. Straw: What's the Difference?

The stems of peas, beans, potatoes, or grasses.

Stalks of threshed grain, used as bedding and food for animals, for thatching, and for weaving or braiding, as into baskets.

(uncountable) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.

A single stalk of threshed grain.

(countable) An individual plant stem.

Pieces or a piece of natural or artificial strawlike material.

(countable) Part of a harness; a hame.

Something, such as a hat or basket, made of straw.

The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw.

A slender tube used for sucking up a liquid.

A part of a harness; a hame.

Something of minimal value or importance.

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

The least valuable bit; a jot

Something with too little substance to provide support in a crisis

Of, relating to, or made of straw

Containing or used for straw, as a barn or feeding trough.

Of the color of straw; yellowish.

Of, relating to, or constituting a straw man.

Apparently legitimate but actually intended as a cover for illegal or secret activity

(countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.

(uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.

(countable) A drinking straw.

(uncommon) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

(figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.

Made of straw.

Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

(figurative) Imaginary, but presented as real.

To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.

To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.

To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.

A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.

The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.

Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.

Plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder

Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

A yellow tint; yellow diluted with white

A thin paper or plastic tube used to such liquids into the mouth

Cover or provide with or as if with straw;

Spread by scattering (

Of a pale yellow color like straw; straw colored