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corn

/kawrn/US // kɔrn //UK // (kɔːn) //

玉米,粟米,玉米的问题

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
    • : the grain, seeds, or kernels of this plant, used for human food or for fodder.
    • : the ears of this plant.
    • : the edible seed of certain other cereal plants, especially wheat in England and oats in Scotland.
    • : the plants themselves.
    • : sweet corn.
    • : corn whiskey.
    • : Skiing. corn snow.
    • : Informal. old-fashioned, trite, or mawkishly sentimental material, as a joke, a story, or music.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to preserve and season with salt in grains.
    • : to preserve and season with brine.
    • : to granulate, as gunpowder.
    • : to plant with corn.
    • : to feed with corn.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inplatitude

Examples

  • Despite plentiful rice, corn and wheat, China remains dependent on imported soybeans and is facing a pork shortage.

  • Do not underestimate this seat in the shape of a corn-on-the-cob by Third Drawer Down, an Australian home goods company.

  • But, now, with August wrapping up, my mind swirls again to thoughts about how an ear of corn in my home could also help me savor summer for just a while longer.

  • The corn is then washed and peeled, and left to dry for 12 hours before it’s ground with stones made from volcanic rock.

  • You’ve got surplus corn and you’ve got a demand for easy, convenient sweetener in the food sector.

  • For the uninitiated, the film is set on a future Earth whose crops (save corn) have been wiped out by a mysterious blight.

  • I certainly found it very helpful when I realized we were going to have to grow our own corn.

  • That must have been some corn for her to remember it 50 years later!

  • Hilbert was a flashy man who helicoptered five miles daily over corn fields to and from the office.

  • He is perfectly capable of introducing a bill requiring all cars to run on corn stalks instead of gasoline.

  • The man with the automobile, the corn-cure, and the baby grew to be legendary in the villages of Provence.

  • I should judge that a peck of corn is about the average product of a day's work through all this region.

  • The Vine appears at intervals, but is not general through this region: Indian Corn is also rare, and appears in small patches.

  • Then, kindly and gently, the boy took Squinty over to the place where the corn crib was built on to the barn.

  • If he has made up his mind that I'm stealing corn nothing I could say would change his opinion.