corn
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(verb) preserve with salt; "corned beef" |
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Related Words: preserve |
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(verb) feed with corn, as of cattle |
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Related Words: feed, give, grub |
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(noun) ears of corn grown for human food |
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Synonyms: edible corn |
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Related Words: cereal, food grain, grain, green corn, hominy, popcorn, sweet corn |
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(noun) tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times |
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Synonyms: Indian corn, Zea mays, maize |
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Related Words: Zea mays everta, Zea mays rugosa, Zea saccharata, cereal, cereal grass, field corn, green corn, popcorn, sugar corn, sweet corn, sweet corn plant |
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(noun) the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal |
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Related Words: kernel |
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(noun) a hard thickening of the skin (especially of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes |
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Synonyms: clavus |
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Related Words: callosity, callus |
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(noun) annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains |
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Synonyms: wheat |
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Related Words: Triticum aestivum, Triticum aestivum spelta, Triticum dicoccum, Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides, Triticum durum, Triticum spelta, Triticum turgidum, cereal, cereal grass, common wheat, durum, durum wheat, emmer, hard wheat, maccaroni wheat, soft wheat, spelt, starch wheat, two-grain spelt, wild emmer, wild wheat |
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(noun) distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn |
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Synonyms: corn whiskey, corn whisky |
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Related Words: corn liquor, moonshine, whiskey, whisky |
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