Corn - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |kɔːrn|  American pronunciation of the word corn
Brit.  |kɔːn|  British pronunciation of the word corn

noun

- 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 (syn: maize)
- the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
- ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
- a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes
- (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)
- whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn
- something sentimental or trite
that movie was pure corn

verb

- feed (cattle) with corn
- preserve with salt
corned beef

Extra examples

All our chickens are fed on corn.

I planted corn this year.

A field planted with corn

The lack of rain has hurt the corn crop.

Their irrigation system channels water to the corn fields.

...a demonstration of how dried kernels of corn were milled in colonial times...

We seeded the field with corn.

The corn is ground into meal.

We had enormous harvests of corn this year.

Alfalfa and corn are planted in rotation.

She used a knife to cut the corn from the cob.

We had corn on the cob.

...a farseeing corn farmer who realized that the future was in ethanol...

...she loves eating corn fritters with maple syrup...

Corn syrup can be used to moisten and flavor baked foods.

Word forms

noun
singular: corn
plural: corns
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