corn
- Top 3000
Sense 1
- noun
- A1
A tall plant with big yellow seeds growing on a thick stem, eaten as a vegetable or fed to animals.
We grilled corn on the cob and ate it with butter.
The farmer planted corn in the field behind the house.
Add a cup of sweet corn to the salad before serving.
Common collocations: corn on the cob · sweet corn · a field of corn · corn kernels · canned corn
Part of: Vegetables, Bread and grains
Sense 2 · less common
- noun
- B2
In British English, any plant grown for its seeds used to make flour, especially wheat.
The corn was ripe and the whole field looked golden.
Heavy rain flattened the corn just before the harvest.
They ground the corn into flour at the old mill.
Common collocations: a field of corn · ears of corn · ripe corn · corn harvest · grind corn into flour
Part of: Bread and grains, Landscape
Forms
- plural
- corns (jen ve významu „kuří oko")