corn
Significado
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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.
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/kɔːn/
Etimología
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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