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Definition: Seed Corn |
Seed CornNoun1. Good quality seeds (as kernels of corn) that are reserved for planting. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Seed CornSynonym: seed grain (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Seed Corn |
| English words defined with "seed corn": Corn fly ♦ seed grain. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "seed corn": FARMER, GENERAL, FARMWORKER, DIVERSIFIED CROPS I ♦ GRADER TENDER ♦ HOPPER-ARSED ♦ MANAGER, PRODUCTION, SEED CORN, manager, regional ♦ PLANT SUPERVISOR ♦ Recourse loan program ♦ Wet-milling. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Removing damaged kernels from ears of hybrid seed corn. Reinbeck, Iowa.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Inspecting ears of hybrid seed corn. Reinbeck, Iowa.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dumping ears of hybrid seed corn into elevator. Reinbeck, Iowa.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ears of hybrid seed corn are unloaded at sorting plant. Reinbeck, Iowa.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Andy Bahain, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower near Kersey, Colorado, with seed corn.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A load of hybrid seed corn is taken to the processing plant. Grundy County, Iowa.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Machine for testing plates used in corn planter in office of hybrid seed corn plant. Conrad, Iowa.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hybrid seed corn plant. Reinbeck, Iowa.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sacks of hybrid seed corn for sale. Scranton, Iowa.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Save seed corn now! / B. of E. ; Scott Printing Company, 11th Floor Edison Building, Minneapolis.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expression using "seed corn": to eat the seed corn. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
seed corn | 142 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "seed corn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | farë drithi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | зърно за семе, зърно за посев. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | obilí (cereals, corn, grain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | samenkorn (grain, grain of seed, seed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vetõmag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eedsay orncay grão usado para semente, grão de milho (kernel). (various references) посевное зерно (seed-corn). (various references) usev (crop). (various references) trigo de siembra, maíz de siembra. (various references) tohumluk mısır, tohumluk buğday. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: censored, encoders, necrosed, seconder. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: decerns, encoder, encodes, encored, encores, endorse, necrose, recodes, scorned, seconde. | |
-2 letters: ceders, censed, censer, censor, codens, coders, corned, credos, creeds, crones, decern, decors, denser, donees, drones, encode, encore, enders, erodes, recode, recons, redoes, redone, redons, resend, scored, screed, screen, secern, second, sender, snored, sonder, sorned. | |
-3 letters: ceder, cedes, cense, cered, ceres, ceros, coden. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: coarsened, coendures, conceders, condenser, conserved, conversed, crescendo, seconders. | |
+2 letters: ancestored, commenders, condemners, condensers, congressed, considered, contenders, coresident, crescendos, deaconries, denouncers, endocrines, enscrolled, ensorceled, necropsied, recognised, recommends, recondense, reconsider, redolences, uncensored, uncorseted, underscore, unescorted. | |
+3 letters: centerfolds, commandeers, comprehends, consecrated, considerate, contredanse, copresented, copresident, coresidents, countersued, crescendoed, crescendoes, crookedness, crowdedness, decahedrons, decrescendo, desecration, documenters, echinoderms, encrimsoned, ensorcelled, misreckoned, precensored, probenecids, proceedings, providences, recompensed, recondensed, recondenses, reconsiders, ropedancers, schnorkeled, secondaries, underscored, underscores, unprocessed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 65 64 43 6F 72 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01100101 01100100 00100000 01000011 01101111 01110010 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e e d   C o r n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 0065 0064 0043 006F 0072 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53717170237818480 |
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