corn
Significat (anglès)
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- Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
- Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
- A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
- A small, hard particle.
- A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
- (slang) Bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms.
- (slang) Money.
Sinònims
Indian corn
Zea mays
corn whisky
Indian corn
edible corn
Avena
cereal grass
food grain
Hordeum
maise
rice and barley
grain maize
Triticum aestivum
triticum sativum
triticum vulgare
cereal oat
corn-whiskey
Zea moys
maize kernel
grain of maize
callositas
green corn
indian corn
maize oil
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/kɔːn/
Etimologia (anglès)
Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”). The sense "maize" is a clipping of Indian corn. Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish korn, Norwegian Bokmål korn, Norwegian Nynorsk korn and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum and Lithuanian žirnis. Doublet of grain, gram, granum, and grao.
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