Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A variety of corn (Zea mays var. rugosa), the common table and canning corn, having kernels that are sweet when young. Also called sugar corn.
Wiktionary
- n. Corn (specifically maize) suitable for eating by humans, as distinguished from corn raised as animal feed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) a variety of the maize of a sweet taste. See the Note under Corn.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating
- n. corn that can be eaten as a vegetable while still young and soft
Examples
“They grew she-corn for hominy, and sweet corn and popcorn, turnips and onions and cabbage and okra.”
“It's left us paralyzed," said Beth Choate , who grows sweet corn at the southern end of the floodway.”
The Wall Street Journal: After the Flood, Farmers Try to Dig In
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Open List: The World of Corn
Corn-related words and phrases. This versatile crop is so important to cultures and economies - from most basic indigenous foodstuff and animal feed to source of biopolymer and biofuel.
seed corn, field corn, flint corn, sweet corn, biofuel, biopolymer, corn starch, modified corn starch, cornstarch, cornflour, polylactic acid, citric acid and 390 more...
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ENVI - Collocations RS
race relations, rack bar, rack-raking machine, radial drainage, radial flow to a ..., radial gate, radial gate with ..., radial tyre, radial velocity, radial velocity o..., radial water coll..., radial-gate weir and 4474 more...
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