corn


Definition: Meaning of, corn in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / kɔːn /

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  1. [uncountable] British English plants such as wheat, BARLEY, and OATS or their seeds
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  2. [uncountable] American English a tall plant with large yellow seeds that grow together on a COB (= long hard part), which is cooked and eaten as a vegetable or fed to animals [=  maize British English]
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  3. [uncountable] the seeds of this plant
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  4. [countable] a painful area of thick hard skin on your foot
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corn used in phrases

  • Corn Belt
    1. the Corn Belt a large area in the central part of the US which produces a lot of corn (= MAIZE in British English) as food for cattle. It includes Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and parts of other states.
  • Corn Laws, the
    1. laws in Britain in the 19th century controlling the price of foreign corn, and making it more expensive than corn produced in Britain. This protected British farmers from competition, but hurt the ordinary people, and after much protest, the laws were changed in 1846
  • Egyptian corn (noun)
    1. sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa
  • European corn borer moth (noun)
    1. native to Europe; in America the larvae bore into the stem and crown of corn and other plants
  • Guinea corn (noun)
    1. sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa
  • Indian corn (noun)
    1. tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
  • Yankee corn (noun)
    1. corn having kernels with a hard outer layer enclosing the soft endosperm
  • candy corn (noun)
    1. a small yellow and white candy shaped to resemble a kernel of corn
  • common corn salad (noun)
    1. widely cultivated as a salad crop and pot herb; often a weed
  • corn beef (noun)
    1. beef cured or pickled in brine
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