Sweet Corn

Definition: Sweet Corn

Sweet Corn

Noun

1. Corn whose young ears are sweet and suitable for eating as a vegetable.

2. Corn developed to be eaten as a vegetable while still young and soft.

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

Synonyms: Sweet Corn

Crosswords: Sweet Corn

References

• The World Market for Unmilled Corn Excluding Sweet Corn and Seed: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Music

• Sweet Corn (reference)

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Gordon Bowdler (left), NRCS Soil Conservation Technician, and farmer inspect corn crop. Sweet Corn is one the many truck crops grown on this farm. [Slide 97CS3122]. Credit: Bob Nichols.

African American farmer Ben Burkette check sweet corn crop in Perry County, MS. Burkette is Executive Director of the Mississippi Association of Cooperatives. Credit: USDA.

Mr. Corneilus Williams farms five acres of vegetables for market. Here is sweet corn. Credit: USDA.

Harvesting sweet corn. Credit: USDA.

Mother and daughter check their sweet corn. Credit: USDA.

Sweet corn. Credit: USDA.

Stripping sweet corn from the stalk on farm near Muskogee, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sweet corn and daughter of a Mormon farmer. Snowville, Utah. Credit: Library of Congress.

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I got twelve bushels of beans, and eighteen bushels of potatoes, beside some peas and sweet corn.

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Economic History

Uae

With more area being planted for forage production and from tomatoes to cucumbers and even sweet corn in the winter, the seed supply business should not be overlooked. (references)

Guatemala

The largest seed importer is the vegetable sector, which includes sweet corn, beets, cauliflower, onion, pepper, broccoli, cabbage, carrot, radish, cucumber, lettuce, squash, tomato, and others. (references)

Costa Rica

According to information from the Costa Rican Central Bank, U.S. imports of processed fruit and vegetables totaled US$11.1 million in 2000. These products, especially mixed fruits, mixed vegetables, yellow & sweet corn, peas, mushrooms and garbanzo beans, generate strong import demand. (references)

Political Economy

MALAYSIA

Import duties for items such as anchovies, sweet corn, peaches, and mixtures of dried nuts and fruits were reduced from between 5 and 30 percent to between 2 and 15 percent. (references)

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

Expressions using "sweet corn": sweet corn cake ♦ sweet corn plant. Additional references.

Danish

sukkermajs (maize, sugar maize). (various references)

Dutch

suikermais (maize, sugar maize). (various references)

Finnish

sokerimaissi (maize, sugar maize). (various references)

French

maïs sucré, maïs doux. (various references)

German

Süßmais (maize, sugar maize), Zuckermais (maize, sugar maize). (various references)

Hungarian

csemegekukorica (corn). (various references)

Italian

mais (corn, maize), granturco dolce (maize, sugar maize), granoturco dolce (maize, sugar maize). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

スーパー受信機 (soup, souvenir, souvenir shop, Sufi, suite, superheterodyne receiver, superviser, sweep, sweeper, sweet, sweet home, sweet melon, sweet pea, sweet potato, sweet spot, sweetheart, Swiss, Swissrama, switch, switchback, switch-hitter, switching, Switzerland). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

スイートコーン . (various references)

Pig Latin

eetsway orncay

Portuguese

milho-doce (maize, sugar maize). (various references)

Spanish

maíz para choclo (maize, sugar maize), maíz dulce (maize, sugar maize). (various references)

Swedish

sockermajs (sweet-corn). (various references)

Turkish

tane mısır, mısır (corn, corny, Egypt, indian corn, maize). (various references)

Zea mays convar.saccharata, Zea mays var.saccharata, Zea rugosa. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: crownets.

-2 letters: cenotes, centers, centres, cornets, crownet, encores, estrone, necrose, tenrecs, townees, western.

-3 letters: cenote, censer, censor, center, centos, centre, certes, contes, cornet, corset, coster, cowers, crones, crowns, encore, enters, erects, erenow, escort, escrow, nester, nestor, newest, noters, owners, recent, recons, rectos, renest, renews, rentes, resect, resent, resewn, resown, rewets, rowens, scoter, screen.

+3 letters: counterviews.

+4 letters: counterpowers.

+5 letters: counterweights, thenceforwards.