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indian corn
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun indian corn has 1 sense
- indian corn(n = noun.plant) corn, maize, 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; Array has parts: corn, edible corn, corn cob, corncob, corn stalk, cornstalk, capitulum, ear, spike
is a kind of cereal, cereal grass
is a member of genus zea, zea
has particulars: field corn, green corn, sugar corn, sweet corn, sweet corn plant, zea mays rugosa, zea saccharata, popcorn, zea mays everta
CIDE DICTIONARY
indian corn,
A cereal plant of the genus Zea (Zea Mays ), also simply called corn , used widely as a food; the maize, a native plant of America; [1913 Webster]
" In modern American usage, the word corn when unmodified usually refers to yellow corn, and Indian corn refers to the variegated variety."
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