bushel of corn
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈbʌʃəl əv kɔrn/
- Specialized
:
bushel de maíz
- At the market, the price of a bushel of corn has increased significantly this year.
So you have to use three times the amount of nitrogen to get the same bushel of corn in in present day.
- So you have to use three times the amount of nitrogen to get the same bushel of corn in in present day.
Examples
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100 years ago, a farmer in America could grow maybe 20 bushels of corn on an acre.
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Chief Sky later traded the surviving eaglet to Daniel McCann of Eagle Point, Wisc., for a bushel of corn.
Blog text (2) -
Once he carried a bushel of corn to the mill to be ground into flour, and it was winter.
Fiction book (1993) -
Do you realize, boy, that I had a farm giving 900 bushels of corn until that railroad had taken it from me?
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The price of a bushel of corn has risen by 54 percent since mid-June.
Blog text (12) -
In need of supplies, therefore, Wofford telegraphed Union Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas and requested thirty thousand bushels of corn for distribution throughout the county.
Academic text (2008) -
Pa said the granary was their real target, and once winter set in, they'd soon be up in the grain bins and working bushels and bushels of corn back to their lair.
Fiction book (1998) -
As one farmer puts it simply: "IPM means that I don't spray until the pests threaten to rob enough bushels of corn to more than equal the cost of spraying."
Academic text (1996) -
The farmer harvested 150 bushels of corn from his field this season.
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This silos can store up to 5,000 bushels of corn for the winter.
Synonyms
30
6.6
A measure for dry goods like grain or fruit
An amount of things like apples or corn that fills about 35 litres
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'bushel' names a unit of dry measure and 'corn' names the commodity, so 'bushel of corn' clearly denotes that quantity of corn. This unit+of+commodity pattern is cross-linguistically common (e.g. 'kilogram of rice'), so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Bushel of corn may come from old markets where a bushel was a wooden basket used to hold corn for sale, so the basket and the amount in it became a set 'measure'. That's why today bushel of corn means a fixed amount of corn, and in the US one bushel is eight gallons.