corn
Từ điển Collocation
corn noun
1 grain crops
ADJ. ripe | green The corn is still green. | young | standing a field of standing corn
QUANT. ear, sheaf | bag, sack | field
VERB + CORN grow | sow | cut, harvest | thresh | grind | eat
CORN + VERB grow
CORN + NOUN field | harvest | cob | mill
PHRASES corn on the cob (= maize cooked with all the grains still attached to the cob)
2 area of hard skin on the toe
VERB + CORN have, suffer from | treat
Từ điển WordNet
n.
- 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; maize, Indian corn, Zea mays
- the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
- ears of corn grown for human food; edible corn
- a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes; clavus
- (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in England or oats in Scotland and Ireland)
- whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn; corn whiskey, corn whisky
- something sentimental or trite
that movie was pure corn
v.
- feed (cattle) with corn
- preserve with salt
corned beef
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
corns|corned|corning
syn.: Indian corn Zea mays clavus corn whiskey corn whisky edible corn maize
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