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Definition: Corn |
CornNoun1. 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. 2. The dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal. 3. Ears of corn grown for human food. 4. A hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes. 5. Annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains. 6. Distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn. Verb1. Feed with corn, as of cattle. 2. Preserve with salt; "corned beef". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "corn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Bible | Corn The word so rendered (dagan) in Gen. 27:28, 37, Num. 18:27, Deut. 28:51, Lam. 2:12, is a general term representing all the commodities we usually describe by the words corn, grain, seeds, peas, beans. With this corresponds the use of the word in John 12:24. In Gen. 41:35, 49, Prov. 11:26, Joel 2:24 ("wheat"), the word thus translated (bar; i.e., "winnowed") means corn purified from chaff. With this corresponds the use of the word in the New Testament (Matt. 3:12; Luke 3:17; Acts 7:12). In Ps. 65:13 it means "growing corn." In Gen. 42:1, 2, 19, Josh. 9:14, Neh. 10:31 ("victuals"), the word (sheber; i.e., "broken," i.e., grist) denotes generally victuals, provisions, and corn as a principal article of food. From the time of Solomon, corn began to be exported from Palestine (Ezek. 27:17; Amos 8:5). "Plenty of corn" was a part of Issac's blessing conferred upon Jacob (Gen. 27:28; comp. Ps. 65:13). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of husking pied ears of corn, denotes you will enjoy varied success and pleasure. To see others gathering corn, foretells you will rejoice in the prosperity of friends or relatives. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A tall cereal grass(Zea mays)bearing kernels and typically large ears and long cultivated in America. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | A hard, frozen surface formed by a freeze following a warming period or rain. Source: European Union. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | Alemannic (Mais). (references) |
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Cereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible seeds (actually a fruit called a grain). Cereal grains are grown in greater quantities worldwide than any other type of crop and provide more calories to the human race. In some developing nations, cereal grains constitute practically the entire diet of common folk. In developed nations, cereal consumption is more moderate but still substantial. The word cereal has its origin in the goddess of grain, Ceres. Staple food grains are often called corn.
Cereal crops
True cereals
The cereal crops are (in approximate order of greatest annual production):
- wheat, the primary cereal of temperate regions
- rice, the primary cereal of tropical regions
- maize, a staple food of peoples in North America, South America, and Africa and of livestock worldwide
- the millets, a group of similar but distinct cereals that form an important staple food in Asia and Africa.
- sorghum, important staple food in Asia and Africa and popular worldwide for livestock
- rye and triticale, important in cold climates
- oats, formerly the staple food of Scotland and popular worldwide for livestock
- barley, grown for malting and livestock on land too poor for wheat
- teff, popular in Ethiopia but scarcely known elsewhere
- wild rice, grown in small amounts in the USA
- spelt, a close relative of wheat
Pseudocereals
In addition, several non-grasses are grown for their seeds. These pseudocereals include (in no particular order):
- buckwheat
- amaranth
- quinoa
Cultivation
While each individual species has its own peculiarities, the cultivation of all cereals crops is similar. All are annual plants; consequently one planting yields one harvest. Wheat, rye, triticale, oats, barley, and spelt are the cool-season cereals. These are hardy plants that grow well in moderate weather and cease to grow in hot weather (approximately 30° but this varies by species and variety). The other warm-season cereals are tender and prefer hot weather.
Cool-season cereals are well-adapted to temperate climates. Most varieties of a particular species are either winter or spring types. Winter varities are sown in the autumn, germinate and grow vegetatively, then become dormant during winter. They resume growing in the springtime and mature in late spring or early summer. This cultivation system makes optimal use of water and frees the land for another crop early in the growing season. Winter varieties do not flower until springtime because they require vernalization. Where winters are too warm for vernalization or exceed the hardiness of the crop (which varies by species and variety), farmers grow spring varieties. Spring cereals are planted in early springtime and mature later that same summer, without vernalization. Spring cereals typically require more irrigation and yield less than winter cereals.
Rye is the hardiest cereal, able to overwinter in the subarctic and Siberia. Wheat is the most popular. All cool-season cereals are grown in the tropics, but only in the cool highlands, where it may be possible to grow multiple crops in a year.
The warm-season cereals are grown in tropical lowlands year-round and in temperate climates during the frost-free season.
Food value
Cereal grains supply most of their calories as starch. They are also a significant source of protein, though the amino acid balance is not optimal. Whole grains (see below) are good sources of dietary fiber, essential fatty acids, and other important nutrients.
Rice is eaten as cooked entire grains, although rice flour is also produced. Oats are rolled, ground, or cut into bits (steel-cut oats) and cooked into porridge. Most other cereals are ground into flour or meal, that is milled. The outer layers of bran and germ are removed (see grain (fruit) and seed). This lessens the nutritional value but makes the grain more appealing to many palates. Health-conscious people tend to prefer whole grains, which are not milled. Overconsumption of milled cereals is sometimes blamed for obesity. Milled grains do keep better because the outer layers of the grains are rich in rancidity-prone fats. The waste from milling is sometimes mixed into a prepared animal feed.
Once (optionally) milled and ground, the resulting flour is made into bread, pasta, desserts, dumplings, and many other products. Besides cereals, flour is sometimes made from potatoes and chestnuts.
In American English, cold breakfast cereals and porridge are called simply cereal.
See also: Zadok scale
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Corn is, in general, any staple food grain, a fruit of the grass family, Poaceae.Originally, the term referred to the kernel of any grain, for instance, barleycorn. In various English-speaking countries, the term may now be used for some particular grain, often the most common staple food grain eaten in the country.
The term corn also can refer to a horny or hardened place on the human skin, often on the foot. This hardening extends into the subcutaneous layers of the skin, and it can be tender or painful.
- In North America and Australia, corn means maize. Usage as a generic name for grain has been lost. Common segments include:
- Sweetcorn, a hybridised variety of maize with a high sugar content. (This is the variety in your supermarket.)
- Field corn, once described as roasting ears. Mostly grown as a feed crop for cattle and other livestock.
- The term corn may also be used as a shorthand for various food products made from maize such as cornbread, corn meal,'' etc.
- In England, corn means wheat, although the word still often retains its generic meaning there.
- In Scotland, corn means oats.
For the most part, this page functions as a disambiguation page in that it primarily points to other pages that might otherwise have this name.
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Corn is a town located in Washita County, Oklahoma. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 591.Geography
Corn is located at 35°22'42" North, 98°46'60" West (35.378269, -98.783200)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.9 km² (0.4 mi²). 0.9 km² (0.4 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 591 people, 198 households, and 136 families residing in the town. The population density is 633.9/km² (1,630.2/mi²). There are 226 housing units at an average density of 242.4/km² (623.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 91.71% White, 0.34% African American, 1.86% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 2.88% from other races, and 3.21% from two or more races. 4.57% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 198 households out of which 32.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.1% are married couples living together, 6.1% have a female householder with no husband present, and 31.3% are non-families. 30.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 19.2% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.52 and the average family size is 3.17. In the town the population is spread out with 24.9% under the age of 18, 4.6% from 18 to 24, 21.8% from 25 to 44, 15.2% from 45 to 64, and 33.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 44 years. For every 100 females there are 78.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 72.1 males. The median income for a household in the town is $31,154, and the median income for a family is $33,281. Males have a median income of $23,750 versus $18,750 for females. The per capita income for the town is $15,632. 14.9% of the population and 14.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 21.1% are under the age of 18 and 2.4% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Corn, Oklahoma."
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The word grain has a great many meanings, most being descriptive of a small piece or particle. For examples:In BOTANY, a grain is a type of simple dry fruit, one that is moncarpelate (formed from a single carpel) and indehiscent (not opening at maturity) and resembles an achene, except that in a grain the pericarp is fused with the thin seed coat. Examples of grains are wheat, rice, and corn — the fruit of these and other grasses (Family Poaceae) are grains. The "hulls" to be separated from many grains before processing are flower bracts.
- a grain of sand or salt; see grain size for granule
- in materials science (especially metallurgy), it is a single crystal inside solid-state matter, also refered to as crystallite
- a very small unit of weight called a grain
- the fineness of resolution for photographic film (i.e., graininess of a picture)
- wood-grain, and as a description of personality or style from wood-working (i.e. going against the grain)
- also granule, from the diminutive of Latin granum, meaning "grain".
The term grain is also used in a more general sense as synonymous with cereal or cereal grains. Considering that the fruit wall and the seed are intimately fused into a single unit, and the grain is a dry fruit, it is not surprising that in general usage little concern is given to technically separating the terms "fruit" and "seed" in these fruits.
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Maize
Varieties of Maize
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Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Genus: Zea Species Zea diploperennis
Zea luxurians
Zea mays
Zea mexicana
Zea perennis
References ITIS 42268 2002-09-22 Maize, or corn, is a staple food grain from Mesoamerica of the genus Zea, especially Zea mays. Maize evolved from teosinite and was a domesticate of native Americans from the Balsas River Valley of southern Mexico. Zea mays has evolved from maize, with the term teosinite now used for other Zea species, particularly Zea luxurians.
There are regional variations in terminology. In North America, Zea mays is known as corn, while the other species are known as maize. In Australia, the term corn is often restricted to sweetcorn, with maize or field corn used for other varieties of Zea mays. In other English-speaking countries, the term corn is more general.
As a food, maize (Zea mays) is used in various forms. One hybridized variety, sweetcorn, is particularly popular.
Maize can also be prepared as hominy; grits, made from hominy, are commonly eaten in U.S. Southern States. Another common food made from maize are corn flakes. The flour of maize is used to make cornbread and Mexican tortillas. Teosinte is used as fodder.
The following sections are adapted from the Household Cyclopedia of 1881:
Growing maize
- The land should be a loamy sand, very rich. In April the grains should be set like hops, at three to four feet distance, three to six grains in a hill, each grain about an inch deep in the ground. The seed from New England is the best. In May the alleys should be hoed and the hills weeded and earthed up higher; many good farmers plough three times after planting. At the latter end of that month all the superfluous stalks should be taken away, and only three stems of corn left in each hill. By the middle of June, it will cover the alley.
- It grows much like bulrushes, the lower leaves being like broad flags, three or four inches wide, and as many feet in length; the stems shooting upwards, from seven to ten feet in height, with many joints, casting off flag-leaves at every joint. Under these leaves and close to the stem grows the corn, covered over by many coats of sedgy leaves, and so closed in by them to the stem, that it does not show itself easily till there bursts out at the end of the ear a number of strings that look like tufts of horsehair, at first of a beautiful green, and afterwards red or yellow, the stem ending in a flower.
Harvesting maize
- The corn will ripen in October or early November; but the sun at that season not having strength enough to dry it, it must be laid upon racks or thin open floors in dry rooms, and frequently turned, to avoid moulding; the grains are about as big as peas, and adhere in regular rows round a white pithy substance, which forms the ear.
More varieties
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- An ear contains from two to four hundred grains, and is from six to ten inches in length. They are of various colors, blue, red, white and yellow. The manner of gathering them is by cutting down the stems and breaking off the ears. The stems are as big us a man's wrist, and look like bamboo cane; the pith is full of a juice that tastes as sweet as sugar, and the joints are about a foot and a half distant. The increase is upwards of five hundred fold.
- Upon a large scale the seed may be drilled in alleys like peas, and to save digging, the ground may be ploughed and harrowed, which will answer very well. It will grow upon all kinds of land. The ears which grow upon dry sandy land are smaller, but harder and riper.
Uses for maize
In 1940, Barbara McClintock received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of the first transposons in maize.
- The grain is taken from the husk by hand, and when ground upon stones, makes an excellent flour, of which it yields much more, with much less bran, than wheat does, and exceeds it in crust, pancakes, puddings, and all other uses except bread; but a sweetness peculiar to it, which in all other cases makes it agreeable, is here less so. It is excellent for feeding horses, poultry and hogs, and fattens them much better and sooner than peas or barley. The stems make better hedges for kitchen garden than reeds do. It clears the ground from weeds, and makes a good season for any other kind of grain. It was the only bread-grain known in America when first discovered by the Spaniardss, and is there called maize.
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Sweetcorn, also known as sugar corn, is a hybridized variety of maize (Zea mays), specifically bred to increase the sugar content. Sweetcorn is commonly known as simply corn in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The fruit of the sweetcorn plant is the corn kernel, a type of fruit called a grain in which the pericarp of the fruit is fused with the seed coat and a type typical of the grasses. The cob is a collection of grains. It is close to a multiple fruit in structure, except that the individual fruits (the kernels) never actually fuse into a single mass.
Corn on the cob —enlarge pictureSweetcorn is commonly eaten as a vegetable, rather than a grain. The cobs are picked for relatively rapid distribution (or frozen in this 'soft' state) before the fruits mature into hard grains. The kernels are boiled or steamed and eaten as a side dish, sometimes with butter. Corn on the cob is a sweetcorn cob that has been boiled, steamed, or grilled whole; the kernels are then bitten off the cob with the teeth. Creamed corn is sweetcorn kernels boiled in a cream sauce. Shoepeg corn is a particularly small, white variety of sweetcorn. Kernels that are allowed to mature to hard grains are used as seed corn or ground into corn flour.
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Wheat (Triticum spp) is a grass that is cultivated around the world. Globally, it is the second-largest cereal crop, tied with maize; the third being rice. Wheat grain is used to make flour, as livestock feed and for brewing beer. Wheat is also planted strictly as a forage crop for livestock and hay.
Wheat
Wheat plantScientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Genus: Triticum Species T. aestivum
T. aethiopicum
T. araraticum
T. boeoticum
T. carthlicum
T. compactum
T. dicoccon
T. durum
T. ispahanicum
T. karamyschevii
T. militinae
T. monococcum
T. polonicum
T. spelta
T. timopheevii
T. trunciale
T. turanicum
T. turgidum
T. urartu
T. vavilovii
T. zhukovskyiReferences ITIS 42236 2002-09-22 It is thought that wheat was first domesticated in the Fertile Crescent area of the Middle East.
Major Species of Wheat
- Common Wheat -- (T. aestivum) A hexaploid species that is the most widely cultivated in the world.
- Einkorn -- (T. monococcum) A diploid species with wild and cultivated varients. One of the earliest cultivated but rarely planted today.
- Emmer -- (T. turgidum dicoccum) A tetraploid species, with wild and cultivated varients. Cultivated in ancient times but no longer in widespread usage.
- Durum -- (T. turgidum durum) The only tetraploid species of wheat widely used today.
- Kamut® -- (T. turgidum polonicum) A tetraploid species grown in small quantities that is extensively marketed. Originally from the Middle East
- Spelt -- (T. spelta) Another hexaploid species cultivated in limited quanties.
Agronomy
Several systems exist to identify crop stages (the Feekes scale, the Zadocks scale being the most widely used). Each scale is a standard system which describe successive stages reach by the crop during the agricultural season. Wheat spiklet with its three antheres sticking out
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Wheat stages
- Wheat at anthesis stage (face and side view)
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Diseases
Wheat is subject to more diseases than other grains, and, in some seasons, especially in wet ones, heavier losses are sustained from those diseases than are felt in the culture of any other culmiferous crop with which we are acquainted. Wheat may suffer from the attack of insects at the root; from blight, which primarily affects the leaf or straw, and ultimately deprives the grain of sufficient nourishment; from mildew on the ear, which operates thereon with the force of an apoplectic stroke; and from gum of different shades, which lodges on the chaff or cups in which the grain is deposited.
Examples of wheat diseases:
Bacterial disease
Fungal diseases
- Bacterial leaf blight Pseudomonas syringae subsp. syringae
- Bacterial sheath rot Pseudomonas fuscovaginae'
- Basal glume rot Pseudomonas syringae pv. atrofaciens
- Black chaff = bacterial streak Xanthomonas campestris pv. translucens
- Pink seed Erwinia rhapontici
Nematodes, parasitic
- Alternaria leaf blight Alternaria triticina
- Anthracnose Colletotrichum graminicola
- Ascochyta leaf spot Ascochyta tritici
- Black head molds = sooty molds Alternaria spp. , Cladosporium spp.
- Common bunt = stinking smut T. tritici, T. laevis
- Downy mildew = crazy top Sclerophthora macrospora
- Dwarf bunt Tilletia controversa
- Ergot Claviceps purpurea
- Foot rot = dryland foot rot Fusarium spp.
- Leaf rust = brown rust Puccinia triticina
- Pink snow mold = Fusarium patch Microdochium nivale
- Scab = head blight Fusarium spp., Gibberella zeae , Microdochium nivale...
- Septoria blotch Septoria tritici Roberge
- Storage molds Aspergillus spp., Penicillium spp....
Viral diseases and viruslike agents
- Grass cyst nematode Punctodera punctata
- Root gall nematode Subanguina spp.
Phytoplasmal diseases
- Agropyron mosaic genus Rymovirus, Agropyron mosaic virus (AgMV)
- Barley stripe mosaic genus Hordeivirus, Barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV)
- Oat sterile dwarf genus Fijivirus, Oat sterile dwarf virus (OSDV)
- Tobacco mosaic genus Tobamovirus, Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV)
- Wheat dwarf genus Monogeminivirus, Wheat dwarf virus (WDV)
- Wheat yellow mosaic Wheat yellow mosaic bymovirus
- Aster yellows phytoplasma
Economics
Harvested wheat grain is classified according to grain properties for the purposes of the commodities market. Wheat buyers use the classifications to help determine which wheat to purchase as each class has special uses. Wheat producers determine which classes of wheat are the most profitable to cultivate with this system.
Wheat in the United States
Classes used in the United-States are
Hard wheats are harder to process and red wheats may need bleaching. Therefore, soft and white wheats usually command higher prices than hard and red wheats on the commodities market.
- Durum -- Very hard, translucent, light colored grain used to make semolina flour for pasta.
- Hard Red Spring -- Hard, brownish, high protein wheat used for bread and hard baked goods.
- Hard Red Winter -- Hard, brownish, very high protein wheat used for bread, hard baked goods and as a adjunct in other flours to increase protein.
- Soft Red Winter -- Soft, brownish, medium protein wheat used for bread.
- Hard White -- Hard, light colored, opaque, chalky, medium protein wheat planted in dry, temperate areas. Used for bread and brewing
- Soft White -- Soft, light colored, very low protein wheat grown in temperate moist areas. Used for bread.
Much of the following text is taken from the Household Cyclopedia of 1881:
Wheat may be classed under two principal divisions, though each of these admits of several subdivisions. The first is composed of all the varieties of red wheat. The second division comprehends the whole varieties of white wheat, which again may be arranged under two distinct heads, namely, thick-chaffed and thin-chaffed.
The thick-chaffed varieties were formerly in greatest repute, generally yielding the whitest and finest flour, and, in dry seasons, not inferior in produce to the other; but since 1799, when the disease called mildew, to which they are constitutionally predisposed, raged so extensively, they have gradually been going out of fashion.
The thin-chaffed wheats are a hardy class, and seldom mildewed, unless the weather be particularly inimical during the stages of blossoming, filling, and ripening, though some of them are rather better qualified to resist that destructive disorder than others. In 1799, thin-chaffed wheats were seriously injured; and instances were not wanting to show, that an acre of them, with respect to value, exceeded an acre of thick-chaffed wheat, quantity and quality considered, not less than fifty per cent. Since that time, therefore, their culture has rapidly increased; and to this circumstance may, in a great measure, be attributed the high character which thin-chaffed wheats now bear.
See also
- Norin 10 wheat
- Fusarium ear blight
External Links
- The Kansas Wheat Commission
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
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Corn | English | Cornwall | N/A |
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Synonyms: CornSynonyms: clavus (n), corn whiskey (n), corn whisky (n), edible corn (n), maize (n), wheat (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convexity | Pimple, zit; wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain; boil; (disease); airbubble, blob, papule, verruca. |
Covering | Capsule; sheath, sheathing; pod, cod; casing, case, theca; elytron; elytrum; involucrum; wrapping, wrapper; envelope, vesicle; corn husk, corn shuck; dermatology, conchology; testaceology. |
Disclosure | Acknowledge, allow, concede, grant, admit, own, own up to, confess, avow, throw off all disguise, turn inside out, make a clean breast; show one's hand, show one's cards; unburden one's mind, disburden one's mind, disburden one's conscience, disburden one's heart; open one's mind, lay bare one's mind, tell a piece of one's mind; unbosom oneself, own to the soft impeachment; say the truth, speak the truth; turn King's (or Queen's) evidence; acknowledge the corn. |
Food | Food, pabulum; aliment, nourishment, nutriment; sustenance, sustentation, sustention; nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board; commissariat; (provision); prey, forage, pasture, pasturage; fare, cheer; diet, dietary; regimen; belly timber, staff of life; bread, bread and cheese. |
Size | Corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; corn fed, gram fed; stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good case, in good condition; in condition; chopping, jolly; chub faced, chubby faced. |
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Screenplays | Gimme a bite of your corn dog (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) What kind of a machine bends a stalk of corn without breaking it (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) I've had bigger chunks of corn in my crap (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; writing credit: Mike Myers) We've got canned fruits and vegetables, canned fish and meats, hot and cold syrups, Post Toasties, Corn Flakes, Sugar Puffs, Rice Krispies, Oatmeal and Cream of Wheat (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) Corn beef should not be blue (Manhattan; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) | |
Lyrics | Eating pork and beans or corn flakes wit no milk (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob) All day long in the field hoein' corn ("Coal Miner's Daughter"; performing artist: Loretta Lynn) Jimmy Crack Corn, cross the county line with Mary Jane (Awnaw; performing artist: Nappy Roots) There was turkey and stuffed corn and macaroni and cheese (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince) Why they don't even care if Jimmy Crack Corn. (The Folk Song Army; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Clever | Iowa: We Do Amazing Things With Corn (references; author: unknown) If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Indian Corn (1972) The Alien Corn (1970) Chili Corn Corny (1965) Corn on the Cop (1965) Singin' in the Corn (1946) | |
Song Titles | Pop Corn (performing artist: Pugs) | |
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 | (3) color slides show a single piece of raw corn with husk stripped away to see the yellow corn. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | (2) color slides show three or four popped corn kernels. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |
 | Guam White corn diseased with Sclerospora. 1918. Credit: USDA. |  | Gully erosion in corn field. Ionia County, Michigan. Credit: Fred Gasper. |
 | District Conservationist Wess Stanley discusses farm plan and no-till cultivation of corn into barley. Washington County, Virginia. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | An old woman going out to the field to plant corn, on a large farm. Moncks Corner (vicinity), SC. March 1941. Credit: USDA. |
 | Mr. Corneilus Williams farms five acres of vegetables for market. Here is sweet corn. Credit: USDA. |  | Corn production in Colorado. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Near Sheldon, Illinois, grower Joe Zumwalt applies a low-insecticide bait that is targeted against western corn rootworms feeding on and laying eggs in these soybeans. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Ken Hammond.. |  | Black and White photo of a pioneer family standing in front of their home. Man is holding onto a stalk of corn. Credit: Unknown. |
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| "Buying corn at the beach" by Carlos Villela Commentary: "My girlfriend buying boiled corn at the beach." | "An ear of corn" by Scheer Jozsef Commentary: "A hawker in Istanbul." |
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Ovid | Now are fields of corn where Troy once was. |
Publilius Syrus | Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn. |
Virgil | A sad thing is a wolf in the fold, rain on ripe corn, wind in the trees, the anger of Amaryllis. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | No constable or other bailiff of ours shall take corn or other provisions from anyone without immediately tendering money therefor, unless he can have postponement thereof by permission of the seller. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | But, on the contrary, the inhabitants think themselves beholden to him, who, by his industry on neglected, and consequently waste land, has increased the stock of corn, which they wanted. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And little piles of Post Toasties, corn flakes, stacked up in designs |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | In this park are several small enclosures for cattle, corn, and gardening |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I grew in those seasons like corn in the night, and they were far better than any work of the hands would have been |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Apply corn starch as you would a dusting powder. (references) | |
Try using nonmedicated talcum powder or corn starch to relieve anal discomfort. (references) | ||
Use corn, rice, soy, arrowroot, tapioca, and potato flours or a mixture instead of wheat flours in recipes. (references) | ||
Business | Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí are corn and bean croppers. (references) | |
One reason for low demand is that Mexico’s corn production has not been growing. (references) | ||
Until now, such a clearance has not been given, although approval is pending for 21 genetically modified plants (7 sugar beet, 9 rape seeds, 5 corn). (references) | ||
Economic History | Senegal | Argentine corn competes with U.S corn. (references) |
Yemen | Corn: Corn is the main ingredient for animal feed. (references) | |
Peru | Peru imports corn from Argentina and the United States. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nicaragua | At the Corn Island jail, six cells each holding six detainees frequently were filled to capacity. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | In September the prisoners from Man prison sent a petition of complaint to President Gbagbo criticizing the poor treatment, poor conditions, and the daily rations of corn porridge that allegedly caused diarrhea and led to the cholera outbreak, which resulted in 160 deaths during the year. (references) | |
Political Economy | VENEZUELA | Specifically, licenses are required for milk, cheese, oilseeds, and yellow corn. (references) |
Trade | Guatemala | Guatemala allows the entry of white corn by permit only. (references) |
Bahrain | There is still a protective duty of 20 percent on corn and palm oil imports. (references) | |
Korea | Soybeans, corn and soybean sprouts are subject to this regulation, with potatoes to be added as of March 2002. (references) | |
Travel | Nicaragua | Yoltamal: a tender corn tamale mixed with milk and other ingredients, wrapped in the leaf of the same corn. (references) |
Nicaragua | Nacatamal: a tamale made of corn stuffed with rice, pork or chicken, potatoes, tomatoes, among other ingredients. (references) | |
Nicaragua | Among the variety of desserts may be found the famous "Tres Leches" made of three kinds of milk and the "Pio Quinto" based on corn and rum. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | The former have been relieved with corn and with clothing, and offensive measures against them prohibited during the recess of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Corn" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.00% of the time. "Corn" is used about 1,196 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99% | 1,184 | 6,525 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.92% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,196 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "corn" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Corn | Last name | 2,000 | 6,269 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "corn". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Demetria | N/A | Ancient Greek | Belonging to corn |
| Demetrios | N/A | Ancient Greek | Belonging to corn |
| Abib | N/A | Biblical | Ears of corn |
| Amram | N/A | Biblical | Handfuls of corn |
| Beri | N/A | Biblical | My corn |
| Beth-dagon | N/A | Biblical | The house of corn |
| Carmel | N/A | Biblical | Full of ears of corn |
| Dagon | N/A | Biblical | Corn |
| Demetrius | N/A | Biblical | Belonging to corn |
| Omri | N/A | Biblical | Sheaf of corn |
| Shibboleth | N/A | Biblical | Ear of corn |
| Shobal | N/A | Biblical | Ear of corn |
| Stachys | N/A | Biblical | Spike or ear of corn |
| Dimitar | N/A | Bulgarian | Belonging to corn |
| Carmella | N/A | English | Full of ears of corn |
| Carmen | N/A | English | Full of ears of corn |
| Dimitri | N/A | French | Belonging to corn |
| Demetrios | N/A | Greek | Belonging to corn |
| Demeter | N/A | Hungarian | Belonging to corn |
| Carmela | N/A | Italian | Full of ears of corn |
| Carmina | N/A | Italian | Full of ears of corn |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
| |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Corn Products International, Inc. |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Corn, OK (town, FIPS 17300) |
Expressions using "corn": acknowledge the corn ♦ asbestos corn ♦ barley corn ♦ Bridgewater Corn ♦ broom corn ♦ Bt corn ♦ bundle of ears of corn ♦ candy corn ♦ chaff among the corn ♦ common corn salad ♦ Corn ball ♦ corn beef ♦ corn Belt ♦ corn bird ♦ corn borer ♦ corn borer moth ♦ corn bread ♦ corn cake ♦ corn campion ♦ corn caused by a tight shoe ♦ corn chamomile ♦ corn chip ♦ corn chowder ♦ corn cob ♦ corn cockle ♦ corn color ♦ corn colour ♦ corn dab ♦ corn dance ♦ corn dealer ♦ corn dodger ♦ corn drake ♦ corn earworm ♦ corn exchange ♦ corn field ♦ Corn flag ♦ corn flake ♦ corn flakes ♦ corn flour ♦ corn flower ♦ Corn fly ♦ Corn fritter ♦ corn gluten ♦ corn gluten feed ♦ Corn laws ♦ corn lily ♦ corn liquor ♦ corn marigold ♦ corn mayweed ♦ corn meal ♦ Corn mint ♦ corn muffin ♦ corn oil ♦ corn ok ♦ corn on the cob ♦ Corn oyster ♦ Corn parsley ♦ Corn popper ♦ corn poppy ♦ Corn Products International ♦ corn pudding ♦ Corn rent ♦ corn rose ♦ corn salad ♦ corn schnapps ♦ CORN SILK ♦ corn smut ♦ corn snake ♦ corn snow ♦ corn speedwell ♦ corn spurrey ♦ corn spurry ♦ corn starch ♦ corn starch US ♦ Corn stone ♦ corn sugar ♦ corn syrup ♦ corn tash ♦ Corn violet ♦ Corn weevil ♦ corn whiskey ♦ corn whisky ♦ corn worm ♦ crow corn ♦ dent corn ♦ ear of corn ♦ eat corn ♦ edible corn ♦ egyptian corn ♦ Eleven Mile Corn ♦ european corn borer ♦ Fantom corn ♦ field corn ♦ flint corn ♦ flour corn ♦ genetically engineered Bt corn ♦ Goose corn ♦ green corn ♦ Guinea corn ♦ heap of corn ♦ Hulled corn. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "corn": corn-and-sheep, corn-beef, corn-bound, corn-bunting-like, corn-chandler, corn-circles, corn-cob, corn-cobs, corn-coloured, corn-crib, corn-dolly, corn-dryer, corn-drying, corn-exchange, corn-factor, corn-fed, corn-field, corn-fields, corn-flakes, corn-flour, corn-goddess, corn-gold, corn-grinding, corn-growing, corn-husk, corn-law-loving, corn-laws, corn-market, corn-markets, corn-mill, corn-milling, corn-mission, corn-on-the-cob, corn-pone, corn-rent, corn-route, corn-samples, corn-sellers, corn-sheaves, corn-sheep, corn-shortage, corn-stack, corn-stacks, corn-stalk, corn-stalks, corn-stubble, corn-white, corn-yellow. | |
Ending with "corn": Anti-corn, seed-corn. | |
Containing "corn": Anti-corn-law, whole-corn bread, whole-corn meal. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
corn | 1,397 | high fructose corn syrup | 100 |
corn snake | 682 | corn stove | 100 |
corn hole | 273 | agriculture corn | 95 |
corn on the cob | 271 | corn casserole | 95 |
kettle corn | 265 | kettle corn recipe | 95 |
corn game hole | 259 | corn maze | 95 |
corn row | 230 | growing corn | 93 |
foot corn | 149 | grilled corn | 84 |
child of the corn | 149 | agriculture corn oil | 82 |
seed corn | 142 | corn bread recipe | 81 |
corn plant | 141 | corn food | 80 |
grilled corn on the cob | 133 | corn chowder recipe | 77 |
corn palace | 131 | agriculture corn gluten | 74 |
corn dog | 124 | corn on the cob recipe | 74 |
corn future | 117 | corn grill | 73 |
indian corn | 115 | corn salad | 73 |
corn recipe | 104 | sweet corn | 72 |
corn chowder | 103 | corn fritters | 72 |
corn bread | 103 | barbecue corn | 71 |
corn picture | 101 | corn dog recipe | 70 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "corn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | mielies (Indian, Indian corn, maize, mealies). (various references) | |
Albanian | misër (indian corn, maize), kokrrizë (granule), kokërr (bean, Berry, bulb, grain, lump), grurë (wheat), drithëra (grain), drithë (cereal, grain). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملح (cure, demanding, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, importune, insistent, insisting, interfering, obsessive, pertinacious, pressing, salt, stringent, urgent), مسمار القدم, ويسكي الذرة, حنطة (grist, wheat), حبة قمح أو ذرة, حبب حبوب, زرع حنطة, ذرة نبات (mote), أقات بالحنطة, شوفان. (various references) | |
Aymara | tonqo. (various references) | |
Basque | arto. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | áóhpiikiinaattsi. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | храня със зоб, царевичен, царевица (indian corn, maize, turkey-corn), осолявам (salt, salt away, salt down), мазол (callosity, callus), зърно (bean, grain, kernel, mammilla, nipple, seed), житни растения, пшеница (wheat), изкласявам (ear). (various references) | |
Chamorro | eskomme. (various references) | |
Chinese | 玉米 (maize). (various references) | |
Cornish | ýs. (various references) | |
Czech | zrno (bean, grain, granule, kernel, seed), oves (oat), obilí (cereals, grain, seed corn), kukuřice (indian corn, maize), kuří oko. (various references) | |
Danish | majs (Indian corn, maize, mealies). (various references) | |
Dutch | likdoorn (callous growth, clavus), eksteroog (callous growth, clavus), mais (Indian corn, maize, mealies), eelt (callosity, callosoty of hands, cutis callosa). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | sara. (various references) | |
Esperanto | maizo (Indian corn, maize, mealies), kalo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | mais (Indian corn, maize, mealies), húð (fur, hide, skin), hørð. (various references) | |
Farsi | میخچه (Picket, Spile), نمک زدن , غله (Cereal), دانه دانه کردن (Granulate). (various references) | |
Finnish | maissi (Indian corn, maize, mealies). (various references) | |
French | maïs (Indian corn), cor (Correspondent). (various references) | |
Frisian | yl. (various references) | |
German | Mais (Indian corn, maize, mealies), hühnerauge, getreide (cereal, crop, grain, rick), korn (bead, corn schnapps, front sight, grain, granule, kernel, pip, seed, speck, stone). (various references) | |
Greek | καλαμπόκι (cob). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יבלת (blister, callus, verruca, wart), תירס (indian corn, maize), זרע (germ, offspring, seed, semen, sperm), דורה (maize, mealie, sorghum), דגן (cereal, grain). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zab (haver, oat, oats), tyúkszem (callus), kukorica (Indian corn, maize, mealies, turkey corn, turkey wheat, Turkish wheat), gabonaszem (berry), búza (frumenty, wheat). (various references) | |
Icelandic | maís (Indian corn, maize, mealies). (various references) | |
Indonesian | jagung. (various references) | |
Italian | granturco (Indian, Indian corn, maize, mealies), callo (callus), mais (maize, sweet corn). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 胼胝 (callus), 肉刺 (blister, clitoris), 玉蜀黍 (maize), 穀物 (cereal, grain), 穀物 (cereal, grain), 米麦 (rice and barley), 底豆 (blister), コール天 (cone, cone speaker, cones, corded velveteen, corduroy, core, Corn Belt, corn chowder, corn flakes, corn snow, corn soup, corn starch, corn syrup, cornmeal, corns). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たこ (callus, kite, octopus), そこまめ (blister), べいばく (rice and barley), まめ (beans, blister, clitoris, devoted, faithful, hardworking, healthy, honest, peas), こくもつ (cereal, grain), コーン (cone), とうもろこし (maize). (various references) | |
Korean | 옥수수 (maize). (various references) | |
Manx | sailley (brine, cure, pickle, salt, salt water), arroo (grain). (various references) | |
Maori | kaanga. (various references) | |
Maya | ixi'im. (various references) | |
Mohawk | onenhste. (various references) | |
Norwegian | mais (Indian corn, maize, mealies). (various references) | |
Occitan | milh, blat (wheat). (various references) | |
Papago | huhni. (various references) | |
Papiamen | mainshi (Indian corn, maize, mealies), kayo. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orncay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | milho (corn meal, Indian corn, maize, mealies). (various references) | |
Quechua | choqlluta (corn on the cob). (various references) | |
Romanian | conserva în sare, cereale (cereal, cereals, grain), sãra (brine, cure, powder, powder with salt, salt, souse), porumb (indian corn, maize, pigeon), pãtul pentru porumb, ovãz (oat), granula (grain, granulate, Pearl), grãunte (grain, grains, granule, kernel, seed), grâu (cereals, grain, wheat), grâne (cereals, grain), bucate (diet, dishes, food, grain, victuals), bob (bean, bob sleigh, bobsled, bobsleigh, grain, kernel, Pearl, seed, speck), bãtãturã (callosity, callus, weft, woof), afuma (burn, cure, deodorize, disinfect, fume, fumigate, gammon, perfume, pickle, reek, scent, smoke, smoke out, smoke-dry, smudge, steam, sulphur). (various references) | |
Romansch | graun. (various references) | |
Romany | misìri. (various references) | |
Russian | хлеба, кукуруза (Indian corn, maize), гранулировать зерно зерновой, мозоль клиновидная, мозоль (blister, bunion, callus), маис (Indian corn, maize, mealies), зерновые хлеба, зерновой (cereal, corny), зерно (grain, granule, kernel, seed), жито, пшеница (wheat). (various references) | |
Scottish | coirce (oats), arbhar. (various references) | |
Sepedi | tahela letswai. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nešto banalno, kukuruzan, kukuruz (indian corn, maize), žulj (callosity, callus). (various references) | |
Sicilian | granuturcu. (various references) | |
Spanish | maíz (Indian corn, maize, mealies), callo (callosity, callus). (various references) | |
Sranan | karu (Indian corn, maize, mealies). (various references) | |
Swahili | muhindi (Indian corn, maize, mealies). (various references) | |
Swedish | majs (Indian corn, maize, mealies), liktorn (bunion), säd (grain, seed, semen), korn (barley, barleycorn, fleck, flick, grain, granule, kernel, pip, speck). (various references) | |
Turkish | yulaf (oat, oaten, oats), tahıl tanesi, tahıl (cereal, cereals, corny, grain), salamura etmek, nasır (callosity, callus, splint), misir (Egypt, Indian corn, maize, mealies), mısır viskisi (corn whisky), mısır (corny, Egypt, indian corn, maize, sweet corn), kurutmak (air, bake, cure, dehydrate, deplete, desiccate, drain, dry, dry up, exhaust, parch, scorch, sear, season, shrivel, torrefy, weather, wither), ekin (crop, cropper, growing grain), dari (Indian corn, maize, mealies), buğday (wheat). (various references) | |
Turkmen | mekgejцwen. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сіяти (crop, inseminate, plant, seed, sow), хліб (bread), кукурудзяний, кукурудза (maize), мозоля (callosity, callus), зерно (bread-stuffs, grain, kernel), засолювати (salt, salt down), збіжжя. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tán tụng ai. (various references) | |
Welsh | corn (horn, pipe, roll, tube), y+d, llafur. (various references) | |
Yucatec | xi'im (Indian corn, maize, mealies). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | callum, clavus, cornu, Zea mays. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | ýava. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | corn. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 42, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Katebhsan de oi adelfoi iwshf oi deka priasqai siton ex aiguptou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Descendentes igitur fratres Ioseph decem ut emerent frumenta in Aegypto |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thanne descendynge the ten britheren of Joseph that thei myyten bigge whete in Egipte, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | So went Iosephs ten brethern doune to bye corne in Egipte |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 42, Verse 3 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang napulo ka mga magsoon ni Jose milugsong aron sa pagpalit ug trigo gikan sa Egipto. |
| Croatian | Tako desetero Josipove braæe siðe da nabavi žita iz Egipta. |
| Danish | Så drog de ti af Josefs Brødre ned for at købe Korn i Ægypten; |
| Dutch | Toen togen Jozefs tien broederen af, om koren uit Egypte te kopen. |
| Finnish | Niin kymmenen Joosefin veljeä lähti ostamaan viljaa Egyptistä. |
| French | Dix frères de Joseph descendirent en Égypte, pour acheter du blé. |
| German | Also zogen hinab zehn Brüder Josephs, daß sie in Ägypten Getreide kauften. |
| Haitian Creole | Se konsa, dis nan frè Jozèf yo desann nan peyi Lejip, y al achte ble. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu pergilah kesepuluh abang Yusuf itu membeli gandum di Mesir. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka turunlah saudara-saudara Yusuf itu, sepuluh orang banyaknya, hendak membeli gandum ke Mesir. |
| Italian | Allora i dieci fratelli di Giuseppe scesero per acquistare il frumento in Egitto. |
| Maori | Na ka haere nga tuakana kotahi tekau o Hohepa ki raro, ki Ihipa, ki te hoko witi. |
| Norwegian | Da drog Josefs ti brødre ned for å kjøpe korn i Egypten. |
| Portuguese | Então desceram os dez irmãos de José, para comprarem trigo no Egito. |
| Rumanian | Zece frayi ai lui Iosif s`au pogorkt kn Egipt, ca sq cumpere grku. |
| Spanish | Diez de los hermanos de José descendieron a comprar trigo en Egipto. |
| Swedish | Då foro tio av Josefs bröder ned för att köpa säd i Egypten. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "corn": cornball, cornballs, cornbread, cornbreads, corncake, corncakes, corncob, corncobs, corncrake, corncrakes, corncrib, corncribs, cornea, corneae, corneal, corneas, corned, cornel, cornelian, cornelians, cornels, corneous, corner, cornerback, cornerbacks, cornered, cornering, cornerman, cornermen, corners, cornerstone, cornerstones, cornerways, cornerwise, cornet, cornetcies, cornetcy, cornetist, cornetists, cornets, cornettist, cornettists, cornfed, cornfield, cornfields, cornflakes, cornflower, cornflowers, cornhusk, cornhusker, cornhuskers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "corn": acorn, amelcorn, barleycorn, bicorn, broomcorn, cavicorn, lamellicorn, longicorn, outscorn, peppercorn, popcorn, scorn, tricorn, unicorn. (additional references) | |
Words containing "corn": acorns, amelcorns, barleycorns, bicorne, bicornes, broomcorns, catercorner, catercornered, lamellicorns, longicorns, oncornavirus, oncornaviruses, outscorned, outscorning, outscorns, peppercorns, picornavirus, picornaviruses, popcorns, scorned, scorner, scorners, scornful, scornfully, scornfulness, scornfulnesses, scorning, scorns, tricorne, tricornered, tricornes, tricorns, unicorns. (additional references) | |
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"Corn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carn, ceran, cern, ciran, cirn, Cloran, coan, coarn, cogn, cohn, coln, conq, coori, coran, corhn, cori, corin, Corna, corne, corni, corno, cornt, cornu, coron, corq, corr, Coryn, coun, Courn, courne, cown, croan, crohn, croin, cron, cront, cronz, cror, Csorna, curn, jorn, korn, korun, kurn, ocr, orn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "corn" (pronounced kô"rn) |
| 4 | k ô" r n | scorn. |
| 3 | -ô" r n | adorn, born, borne, Bourn, Bourne, forlorn, forsworn, horn, lowborn, mourn, porn, reborn, shorn, stillborn, sworn, thorn, torn, unborn, warn, wellborn, worn. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: con, cor, nor, orc, roc. | |
-2 letters: no, on, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: acorn, bronc, corns, cornu, corny, crone, crony, croon, crown, narco, orcin, racon, recon, scorn. | |
+2 letters: acorns, anchor, archon, bicorn, bicron, bronco, broncs, candor, cantor, carbon, carton, censor, citron, cloner, coiner, concur, condor, confer, conger, conker, conner, contra, corban, cordon, coring, cornea, corned, cornel, corner, cornet, cornua, cornus, corona, cortin, craton, crayon, crepon, crones, croons, croton, crowns, encore, garcon, ironic, macron, micron, narcos, nordic, orcein, orcins, racons, racoon, rancho, rancor, reckon, recoin, recons, scorns, uncork, zircon. | |
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