corn

🇺🇸 /kɔːrn/ 🇬🇧 /kɔːn/
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noun
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plants grown for their grains, like wheat, or the grains themselves

The corn is still green and not ready to harvest.

R

a tall plant with large yellow grains used for food or flour

The major crops are wheat, barley, and corn.

R

the yellow seeds of the corn plant, eaten as a vegetable

I made a fresh corn and arugula salad for dinner.

R

a small, hard, and sometimes painful area of skin on the foot

See your doctor if you have foot pain or corns.

translation

n. plants grown for their grains, like wheat, or the grains themselves; a tall plant with large yellow grains used for food or flour; the yellow seeds of the corn plant, eaten as a vegetable; a small, hard, and sometimes painful area of skin on the foot

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Plural corns