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EDIBLE CORN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
Synonyms:
corn; edible corn
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("edible corn" is a kind of...):
cereal; food grain; grain (foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses)
Meronyms (parts of "edible corn"):
green corn; sugar corn; sweet corn; sweet corn plant; Zea mays rugosa; Zea saccharata (a corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "edible corn"):
green corn; sweet corn (corn that can be eaten as a vegetable while still young and soft)
hominy (hulled corn with the bran and germ removed)
popcorn (small kernels of corn exploded by heat)
Holonyms ("edible corn" is a part of...):
corn; Indian corn; maize; Zea mays (tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times)
