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Words related to corn

Related / Similar Words: edible corn, corn whiskey, corn whisky, wheat, maize, Indian corn, Zea mays, clavus

Definition:

something sentimental or trite; "that movie was pure corn";

ears of corn grown for human food;

whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn;

annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains;

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;

the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal;

a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes;

preserve with salt; "corned beef";

feed (cattle) with corn;

Hyponyms: sweet corn, green corn, hominy, popcorn, sugar corn, sweet corn plant, Zea mays rugosa, Zea saccharata, moonshine, bootleg, corn liquor, durum, durum wheat, hard wheat, Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum, macaroni wheat, soft wheat, common wheat, Triticum aestivum, spelt, Triticum spelta, Triticum aestivum spelta, emmer, starch wheat, two-grain spelt, Triticum dicoccum, wild wheat, wild emmer, Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides, field corn, Zea mays everta

Part Meronyms: maize, Indian corn, Zea mays

Member Meronyms: Triticum, genus Triticum, Zea, genus Zea

Derivational Morphology: maize, Indian corn, Zea mays

Language Translations:
Bosnian: kukuruz		Catalan: blat de moro
Croatian: kukuruz		Dutch: maïs
Estonian: mais		Finnish: maissi
French: maïs		Galician: millo
German: Mais		Hungarian: kukorica
Italian: granturco		Maltese: qamħ
Polish: kukurydza		Russian: кукуруза
Spanish: maíz		Swedish: majs
Telugu: మొక్కజొన్న

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