corn
- noun
- /kɔrn/
- US
- I bought a bag of corn to make popcorn for the movie night.
- sweet corn
- corn on the cob
- grow corn
Real estate is a commodity just like corn, steel, copper.
- Real estate is a commodity just like corn, steel, copper.
- The biggest staple grain in Africa is corn from from the Americas.
- Sucrose is in bags, high fructose corn syrup is in barrels.
- No smoking, no high fructose corn syrup, no sugar.
- Gold is a commodity like wheat, like oil, like corn, like cotton.
- I got butterfly chicken, corn and chips.
- Something like dried corn husks or dried corn cobs?
- Like at the moment they're full of corn, My barn's full of corn.
Examples
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The old man lifted a piece of corn and ate with an appetite.
Fiction book (1991) -
Community banker Steve Lindholm notes that the corn planting started a bit ahead of schedule this year.
Academic text (1999) -
The price of corn is going up.
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There was some corn on it and some tomatoes.
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I got butterfly chicken, corn and chips.
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I'm making that creamed corn you like.
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This is like corn-fed Iowa beef.
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Sweet summer corn!
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The policy chosen will be critical in determining the growth of both corn and cellulose ethanol.
Academic text (2008) -
The farmer harvested the corn in late summer for sale at the market.
Synonyms
A tall plant that produces small yellow seeds used for food and animal feed
A tall plant grown for its large ears of corn
Idioms
Compounds
- US
A sweet thick liquid made from corn that you use to make food sweeter and thicker
- US
A small triangular sweet with yellow, orange, and white layers often eaten at Halloween
A type of corn with sweet, tender kernels that people eat as a vegetable when young
- US
A gentle reddish-orange snake from the southeastern United States often found on farms and kept as a pet
- UK
Snow made of small loose grains after melting in daytime and freezing again at night
- US
A small fried cake of batter and bits of corn served hot as a snack or side dish
- Specialized
A coarse food for farm animals like cattle made from parts left after making corn products
An insect, usually a moth or its caterpillar, that eats holes in corn stems and harms the crop
- US
An alcoholic drink made mostly from corn, traditionally from the United States
- Offensive
A strong, healthy-looking person from the countryside who seems a bit naive
A small white wildflower with a yellow center that grows in cornfields and spreads quickly
- UK
A plant with bright purple, trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous seeds that grows in grain fields and roadsides
- US
A traditional dance by some Native American people to ask for rain and a good corn harvest
- South African
A South African plant with long grasslike leaves and bright lily-like flowers
- UK
A European wildflower with reddish-purple trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous seeds
- UK
A bright red wild flower that grows in fields of grain in Europe and that people often plant in gardens
A small annual plant with tiny blue flowers that grows in open ground like roadsides
- UK
A small plant with thin leaves and white star-shaped flowers that grows in fields
- UK
A small weed with leaves that grow around the stem and white flowers in farm fields
- Archaic
A small plant like grass with pale flowers and a bitter root used to treat stomach problems
- Indian
A grain plant called sorghum that people grow for food in dry regions of North Africa and Asia
A small moth whose young caterpillars make holes in corn stems and damage crops
- Specialized
A type of corn with hard outer kernels and a soft inside used for food or decoration
A small woodland plant with creamy white flowers and yellow roots like corn kernels
Surface Forms
Etymology
Corn comes from an old English word meaning 'grain', and when Europeans found that maize was the main grain in America they began to call that plant corn, which is why American corn means maize.