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Sounds | kao'rn |
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Rhymes | acorn, adorn, airborne, and 39 more rhymes in aorn at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | 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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Synonyms | maize, Indian corn, Zea mays |
Member of | Zea, genus Zea |
Parts | corn, edible corn; corncob; ear, spike, capitulum |
Narrower | field corn; sweet corn, sugar corn, green corn, sweet corn plant, Zea mays rugosa, Zea saccharata; popcorn, Zea mays everta |
Broader | cereal, cereal grass |
Verbs | corn |
Meaning | The dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal. |
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Broader | kernel |
Substances | corn oil |
Verbs | corn |
Meaning | Ears of corn grown for human food. |
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Synonyms | edible corn |
Part of | corn, maize, Indian corn, Zea mays |
Narrower | sweet corn, green corn; hominy; popcorn; sweet corn, sugar corn, green corn, sweet corn plant, Zea mays rugosa, Zea saccharata |
Broader | grain, food grain, cereal |
Meaning | 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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Synonyms | clavus |
Broader | callosity, callus |
Meaning | Annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains. |
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Synonyms | wheat |
Member of | Triticum, genus Triticum |
Parts | wheat berry |
Narrower | 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 |
Broader | cereal, cereal grass |
Meaning | Whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn. |
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Synonyms | corn whiskey, corn whisky |
Narrower | moonshine, bootleg, corn liquor |
Broader | whiskey, whisky |
Meaning | Something sentimental or trite. |
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Examples | "that movie was pure corn" |
Broader | mawkishness, sentimentality, drippiness |
Meaning | Feed (cattle) with corn. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Broader | feed, give |
Nouns | corn; corn |
Meaning | Preserve with salt. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "corned beef" |
Category | cooking, cookery, preparation |
Broader | preserve, keep |