sweet corn
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1.1
- noun
- /swit kɔrn/
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maíz dulce
- My favorite summer dish is grilled sweet corn with butter and salt.
- sweet corn on the cob
- fresh sweet corn
- ears of sweet corn
And then we'll get another crop of sweet corn for the fall.
- And then we'll get another crop of sweet corn for the fall.
- This is Dan and Olive from Chautauqua, New York doing a sweet corn taste test with five varieties grown at a local farm.
- We have, let's see, our primary crops are strawberries, tomatoes, sweet corn, Peaches, winter squash and pumpkins.
- Then it was the Marks and Spencer's got a healthy looking sandwich with brown bread, sweet corn and tuna and a smoothie, a little bottle.
Examples
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Mark, Anna, Lynn, my folks, and I ate fried fish, sweet corn, and tomatoes from Mark's garden for supper that night.
Fiction book (1993) -
We have friend chicken, mashed potatoes, some sweet corn, macaroni and cheese, some biscuits, peppers, and you know we gotta have that hot sauce.
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You can also add in things like sweet corn if you wanted to.
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We got sweet corn here.
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I only had but two ears of sweet corn.
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And then we'll get another crop of sweet corn for the fall.
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But I did add sweet corn and a side salad.
Blog text (26) -
And in case you're wondering, you can eat sweet corn raw straight from the garden and it's delicious.
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We're going to have blueberry pie, sweet corn, apple cider and ham.
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We would have hamburgers and French fries, sweet corn, and strawberries for dessert.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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3.0
Young corn picked and eaten before it ripens
A type of corn with young sweet ears that people eat as a vegetable
A type of corn with sweet young kernels eaten as food
A type of corn with sweet young ears eaten as a vegetable
A type of corn people grow for sweet, tender kernels to eat
How Hard
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a type of corn with sweet kernels' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'sweet' (having sugar-like taste) with 'corn' (maize), so a learner who knows both words can infer the compound meaning. This is a regular adjectival noun compound found across languages (e.g., Spanish 'maíz dulce'), making it readily transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The name sweet corn comes from farmers who noticed a kind of corn with soft, sugary kernels and called it sweet because of the taste. That's why sweet corn means the 'vegetable' type of corn you eat when the kernels are young and tender.