corn
Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
Noun 4 meanings
Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.
“He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.”
A small, hard particle.
Verb 3 meanings
To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.
“to corn gunpowder”
To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.
To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.
“Corn the horses.”
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”).
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CORN at a glance
CORN has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + R 1 + N 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,115 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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