CORN SILK

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn

Synonyms:

corn silk; cornsilk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("corn silk" is a kind of...):

style ((botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma)

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