corn

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Meaning

1. Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
2. Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
3. A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
4. A small, hard particle.
5. A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
6. (slang) Bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms.
7. (slang) Money.

Indian corn

Zea mays

corn whisky

Indian corn

edible corn

Avena

cereal grass

food grain

Hordeum

maise

rice and barley

kaffir corn

grain maize

Triticum aestivum

soft wheat

triticum sativum

triticum vulgare

cereal oat

common barley

salinate

corn-whiskey

Zea moys

creamed corn

maize kernel

grain of maize

callositas

green corn

indian corn

maize oil

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɔːn/

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.