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  1. noun Any of numerous cultivated forms of a widely grown, usually tall annual cereal grass (Zea mays) bearing grains or kernels on large ears.
  2. noun The grains or kernels of this plant, used as food for humans and livestock or for the extraction of an edible oil or starch. Also called Indian corn, maize.
  3. noun An ear of this plant.
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  • He has put in several acres of oats, and the corn is about six inches above the ground. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
  • The days grew shorter before the corn was all down from the moors. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
  • “By no means!” she declared, and explained that in America the corn was always served in the husk. —  In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875
  • So this corn is the next best thing, with a clean taste that really suggests fresh. —  ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
  • The succulent sweetness of the corn was a high-class version of the creamed corn and ham soup my mother made during my childhood. —  New York Press
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  1. Middle English, grain, from Old English; see gr̥ə-no- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English corne, from Old French, horn, from Latin cornū; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English corn, coren, corne, from Anglo-Saxon corn, a grain or seed, grain, corn, = Old Saxon OFries. korn = Dutch koren, koorn = Middle Low German koren, Low German koren, koorn = Icelandic Danish Swedish korn = Old High German chorn, choron, corn, Middle High German G. korn = Gothic (Moesogothic) kaurn, grain, a grain, = Latin granum (later ult. English grain) = Old Bulgarian zrŭno = Slov. Servian Bohem; zrno = Polish ziarno = Sorbian zorno, zerno = Little Russian and Russian zerno = Old Prussian zyrne = Lithuanian zhirnis = Lettish zirnis, grain. Hence diminutive kernel, q. v.
  2. from corn, n.
  3. from French corne (also cor), a horn, a hard or horny swelling on a horse, from Latin cornu, a horn, a horny excrescence, a wart, etc., = English horn: see horn.
 

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