Indian+corn

  • 91corn smut — noun a smut fungus attacking Indian corn • Syn: ↑cornsmut • Hypernyms: ↑smut, ↑smut fungus • Hyponyms: ↑boil smut, ↑Ustilago maydis • Member Holon …

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  • 92corn — I. /kɔn / (say kawn) noun 1. collectively, any edible grain, especially wheat in England, oats in Scotland and Ireland, and maize in North America and Australia. 2. the cereal plants still growing and containing the grain. 3. a single seed of… …

  • 93Corn. — 1. Cornish. 2. Cornwall. * * * abbrev 1. Cornish 2. Cornwall * * * corn1 «krn», noun, verb. –n. 1. a kind of grain that grows on large ears; maize; Indian corn. 2 …

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  • 94corn´like´ — corn1 «krn», noun, verb. –n. 1. a kind of grain that grows on large ears; maize; Indian corn. 2. the plant, a species of cereal grass, that it grows on. 3. = sweet corn. (Cf. ↑sweet corn) 4. any small, hard seed or grain, especially of wheat,… …

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  • 95Indian bread — noun see tuckahoe * * * 1. See corn bread. 2. tuckahoe (def. 1). [1645 55, Amer.] * * * Indian bread noun 1. Maize bread 2. A Virginian fungus said to have been eaten by the Native Americans …

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  • 96corn cutter — noun Etymology: corn (I) 1. : a machine for cutting up stalks of Indian corn as food for cattle 2. : a knife (as a sickle) or a machine for cutting down the stalks of Indian corn …

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  • 97Indian wheat — Wheat Wheat (hw[=e]t), n. [OE. whete, AS. hw[=ae]te; akin to OS. hw[=e]ti, D. weit, G. weizen, OHG. weizzi, Icel. hveiti, Sw. hvete, Dan. hvede, Goth. hwaiteis, and E. white. See {White}.] (Bot.) A cereal grass ({Triticum vulgare}) and its grain …

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  • 98Indian — /in dee euhn/, n. 1. Also called American Indian, Amerind, Amerindian, Native American. a member of the aboriginal people of America or of any of the aboriginal North or South American stocks, usually excluding the Eskimos. 2. any of the… …

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  • 99corn — {{11}}corn (1) grain, O.E. corn, from P.Gmc. *kurnam small seed (Cf. O.Fris., O.S. korn grain, M.Du. coren, Ger. Korn, O.N. korn, Goth. kaurn), from PIE root *gre no grain (Cf. O.C.S. zruno …

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  • 100corn — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. maize, Indian corn, sweet corn, green corn, field corn, corn on the cob, hominy, popcorn; see also grain 1 . v. Syn. cure, salt, pickle; see preserve 3 …

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