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FIELD CORN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("field corn" is a kind 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)
field crop (a crop (other than fruits or vegetables) that is grown for agricultural purposes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "field corn"):
dent corn; Zea mays indentata (corn whose kernels contain both hard and soft starch and become indented at maturity)
flint corn; flint maize; Yankee corn; Zea mays indurata (corn having kernels with a hard outer layer enclosing the soft endosperm)
flour corn; soft corn; squaw corn; Zea mays amylacea (corn having kernels almost entirely of soft starch)
