cornmeal
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2.3
- noun
- /ˈkɔrnˌmil/
- US
:
harina de maíz
- We are ending the food tour with the national dish, which is flying fish and cuckoo, which is like cornmeal with some herbs.
- cornmeal mush
As a child, Hanabad learned to blend the fine cornmeal in the still mountain mornings.
- As a child, Hanabad learned to blend the fine cornmeal in the still mountain mornings.
- Grease the pie pan with a little bit of oil and then sprinkle little cornmeal over the oil.
- It was lentils, it was cornmeal, it was croutons, it was fried onions, it was a whole bag of shredded coconut.
- I'm looking up a recipe now because now I'm just trying to yellow cornmeal meal.
Examples
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There's pan-baked bread, a dish of salt, and the pot has venison and yellow cornmeal in a kind of stew.
Fiction book (1992) -
Grease the pie pan with a little bit of oil and then sprinkle little cornmeal over the oil.
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Well, that is a waste of good cornmeal if you ask me.
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I need you to go to the store to get some cornmeal.
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Stir cornmeal into the remaining cup of cold milk and add 1 cup of cold water.
Academic text (1993) -
They're made with white cornmeal.
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Cornmeal pancakes with blackberry compote.
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Through most of the week, we ate cornmeal mush for breakfast and corn pones for bread.
Fiction book (2002) -
Once the milk mixture comes to a boil, gradually add the cornmeal while continually whisking.
Blog text (7) -
I need you to go to the store to get some cornmeal for the recipe.
Synonyms
133
4.6
Grain ground into small pieces used for cooking or eating
Corn ground into coarse pieces that people use for food
Compounds
How Coarse
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word cornmeal is just two simple parts: corn, which once meant 'any grain' and now often means 'maize', and meal, meaning 'ground grain'. So cornmeal is literally 'ground corn', the coarse flour used for cooking and baking.