Corn (Noun)
Meaning 1
The dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Farmers stored large quantities of corn in their silos for winter livestock feed.
- Corn for chicken feed must be kept dry and free from mold to ensure bird health.
- At the gristmill the local farmers ground their corn into a fine yellow meal for baking.
- Dry corn stored for too long in warm climates risks being consumed by rodents.
- Much of the country's agricultural output goes to growing corn used in various types of livestock feed.
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Meaning 2
(Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland).
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Nouns denoting plants.
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Meaning 3
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.
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Nouns denoting plants.
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Meaning 4
Ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food.
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Nouns denoting foods and drinks.
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Meaning 5
Something sentimental or trite; "that movie was pure corn".
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Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
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Meaning 6
A hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes.
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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Meaning 7
Whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn.
Classification
Nouns denoting foods and drinks.