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Meaning in simple English, pronunciation and examples
Pronunciation: US /kɔrn/ · UK /kɔːn/
corn means: A food grain with large, usually yellow seeds, often eaten cooked or ground into flour.
noun
A food grain with large, usually yellow seeds, often eaten cooked or ground into flour.
- We ate corn with dinner.
- She added corn to the soup.
- Would you like butter on your corn?
A tall plant that produces large yellow seeds used as food.
- We planted corn this spring.
- The corn grew taller than the fence.
- Farmers harvest corn in the autumn.
A small, hard, often painful area of thick skin, usually on a toe or foot.
- This corn hurts when I walk.
- Tight shoes can cause corns.
- She had a corn removed from her toe.
Grain grown for food, such as wheat, barley, or oats.
- The farmer sold his corn.
- The mill turns corn into flour.
- Rain damaged the corn harvest.
verb
To make a substance into small grains.
- The workers corn the powder.
- The mixture was corned before drying.
- They corned the gunpowder into evenly sized grains.
To give an animal grain to eat.
- They corn the horses every morning.
- The farmer corned his cattle before sunrise.
- Who will corn the animals tonight?
Questions about corn
What does corn mean?
A food grain with large, usually yellow seeds, often eaten cooked or ground into flour.
What is corn in other languages?
Türkçe: mısır · Español: maíz · Français: maïs · Deutsch: Mais · Italiano: mais · 日本語: トウモロコシ
How do you pronounce corn?
In American English /kɔrn/; in British English /kɔːn/.
How do you use corn in a sentence?
We ate corn with dinner. She added corn to the soup.
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