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Definition of: corn
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(kôrn) noun
1. The edible seeds of cereal plants: in England, wheat, barley, rye, and oats collectively; in America, maize, or Indian corn.
2. The plants that produce corn when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after harvesting.
3. Slang Anything regarded as trite, banal, sentimental, etc., especially popular music.
4. Colloq. Whisky distilled from corn.
—v.t.
1. To preserve in salt or in brine: to corn beef.
2. U.S. To feed with corn.
3. Scot. To feed with oats.
4. To granulate. [OE]
Corn may appear as a combining form in hyphemes or solidemes, or as the first element in two–word phrases:
cornbin | corn crop | corn–growing |
corn brandy | corn–eating | cornland |
corncake | corn flour | cornloft |
corn–colored | corn–grower | cornmill |
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