Now Dial. a tiny, hard particle, as of salt or sand; granule; grain
a small, hard seed or seedlike fruit, esp. a seed or grain of a cereal grass; kernel: now chiefly in compounds, as peppercorn, barleycorn
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a cultivated American cereal plant (Zea mays) of the grass family, with the grain borne on cobs enclosed in husks; maize
the ears or kernels of this cereal plant
Brit.
the seeds of all cereal grasses, as wheat, rye, barley, etc.; grain
any plant or plants producing grain
the leading cereal crop in a particular place, as wheat in England or oats in Scotland and Ireland
Informal corn whiskey
☆ Informal ideas, humor, music, etc. regarded as old-fashioned, trite, banal, or sentimental
transitive verb
to form into granules
to preserve or pickle with salt granules or in brine
to feed grain to (animals)
noun
a hard, thick, painful growth of skin, esp. on a toe, caused by pressure or friction
See corn in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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noun
a. Any of numerous cultivated forms of a widely grown, usually tall annual cereal grass (Zea mays) bearing grains or kernels on large ears.
b. The grains or kernels of this plant, used as food for humans and livestock or for the extraction of an edible oil or starch. Also called Indian corn, maize.
An ear of this plant.
Chiefly British Any of various cereal plants or grains, especially the principal crop cultivated in a particular region, such as wheat in England or oats in Scotland.
a. A single grain of a cereal plant.
b. A seed or fruit of various other plants, such as a peppercorn.
Corn snow.
Informal Corn whiskey.
Slang Something considered trite, dated, melodramatic, or unduly sentimental.