Meanings
- uncountableField corn with a high soft starch content.
The nondegerming system grinds corn, preferably white dent corn, into meal with little, if any, separation of germ.
2000, Karel Kulp, Handbook of Cereal Science and Technology, Revised and Expanded, page 48Synonyms: grain corn
Synonyms & antonyms
nounField corn with a high soft starch content.
More synonyms by meaning
nouncorn whose kernels contain both hard and soft starch and become indented at maturity
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Origin
Named from the small indentation at the crown of each kernel on a ripe ear of corn.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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