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Noun corn has 7 senses
- corn, maize, Indian corn, Zea mays - 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
--1 is a kind of cereal, cereal grass
--1 is a member of Zea, genus Zea
--1 has parts:
--1 has particulars:
- corn - the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
--2 is a kind of kernel
--2 has substance: corn oil
- corn, edible corn - ears of corn grown for human food
--3 is a kind of grain, food grain, cereal
--3 is a part of corn, maize, Indian corn, Zea mays
--3 has particulars:
- corn, clavus - a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes
--4 is a kind of callosity, callus
- wheat, corn - annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
--5 is a kind of cereal, cereal grass
--5 is a member of Triticum, genus Triticum
--5 has parts: wheat berry
--5 has particulars: | | durum, durum wheat, hard wheat, Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum, macaroni wheat; soft wheat; common wheat, Triticum aestivum; spelt, Triticum spelta, Triticum aestivum spelta; emmer, starch wheat, two-grain spelt, Triticum dicoccum; wild wheat, wild emmer, Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides |
- corn whiskey, corn whisky, corn - whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn
--6 is a kind of whiskey, whisky
--6 has particulars: moonshine, bootleg, corn liquor
- corn - something sentimental or trite; "that movie was pure corn"
--7 is a kind of mawkishness, sentimentality, drippiness
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