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corn

noun (FOOD)
 
 
/kɔːn/ US  /kɔːrn/

Definition

B1 [U] UK (the seeds of) plants, such as wheat, maize, oats, and barley, that can be used to produce flour: a sheaf of corn grains of cornCereals [U] US the seeds of the maize plant, or the plant itselfCerealsCommon plants
(Definition of corn noun (FOOD) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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