sweetcorn
- noun
- A2
- less common
- British English only
A yellow vegetable of small, soft, sweet seeds that grow in rows on a long cob and are eaten cooked.
She opened a tin of sweetcorn and stirred it into the salad.
We had grilled chicken with rice and sweetcorn for dinner last night.
Most children like sweetcorn because the small yellow kernels taste slightly sweet.
He grows sweetcorn at the sunny end of his vegetable garden.
Common collocations: a tin of sweetcorn · frozen sweetcorn · sweetcorn kernels · tuna and sweetcorn · boiled sweetcorn
Part of: Vegetables, Cooking