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Dent Corn

Definition: Dent Corn

Dent Corn

Noun

1. Corn whose kernels contain both hard and soft starch and become indented at maturity.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Dent Corn

Synonym: Zea mays indentata (n). (additional references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Dent Corn

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Economic History

Colombia

The corn development agreement further specifies that the mixed feed industry agrees to utilize the locally grown dent corn through purchase contracts that stipulate a peso price. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Dent Corn

Language Translations for "dent corn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

hestetandsmajs (dent maize, fied corn). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

platte mais (dent maize, fied corn), paardetandmais (dent maize, fied corn), paardetand (dent maize, fied corn). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

hammasmaissi (dent maize, fied corn). (various references)

   

French

  

maïs denté (dent maize). (various references)

   

German

  

Zahnmais (dent maize, fied corn), Pferdezahnmais (dent maize, fied corn). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

lófogú kukorica. (various references)

   

Italian

  

granturco indentato (dent maize, fied corn), granturco a dente di cavallo (dent maize, fied corn). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

entday orncay

   

Portuguese

  

milho-dente (dent maize, fied corn). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

maíz diente de caballo (dent maize, fied corn), maíz dentado (dent maize, fied corn). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tandmajs (dent maize, fied corn). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Dent Corn

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Zea indentata, Zea mays convar.dentiformis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Dent Corn

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-n-n-o-r-t"

-1 letter: contend, donnert.

-2 letters: conned, conner, corned, cornet, docent, nocent, rodent, tendon, tonner.

-3 letters: cento, coden, coder, coned, conte, cored, coted, credo, crone, decor, donne, doter, drone, nonce, nonet, noted, noter, recon, recto, redon, tenon, tenor, toned, toner, tonne, trend, trode, trone.

-4 letters: cent, cero, code, coed, cone, conn, cord, core, corn, cote, deco, dent.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-n-n-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: contender, noncredit.

 

+2 letters: confronted, contenders, undercount.

 

+3 letters: concentered, conditioner, constrained, constringed, contravened, contredanse, countermand, encountered, indirection, nondescript, nondirected, recondition, reconnected, truncheoned, uncontrived, unconverted, undercounts.

 

+4 letters: androcentric, androgenetic, concentrated, condemnatory, conditioners, consternated, contredanses, corespondent, countermands, countermined, countertrend, denunciatory, deracination, indirections, indiscretion, indoctrinate, interdiction, noncertified, nondescripts, nondirective, precondition, preinduction, reconditions, reconnoitred, rencountered, uncontracted, uncontrolled, undercoating, undercounted.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dent Corn


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 65 6E 74      43 6F 72 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01000011 01101111 01110010 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#32 &#67 &#111 &#114 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 006E 0074      0043 006F 0072 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38718086237818480

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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