corn syrup

English

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Noun

corn syrup (countable and uncountable, plural corn syrups)

1. A sticky sweet liquid, consisting of sugars dissolved in water, produced from corn (maize). Used as a sweetener in cooking, especially in commercial kitchens but also in candy making.

Derived terms

• high fructose corn syrup

Translations

sticky sweet liquid

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玉米糖漿／玉米糖浆 (zh) (yùmǐ tángjiāng)

• Esperanto: maizosiropo, maiza siropo
• Finnish: maissisiirappi
• French: sirop de maïs
• Italian: sciroppo di mais
• Japanese: コーンシロップ (ja) (kōn shiroppu)
• Portuguese: xarope de milho m
• Spanish: jarabe de maíz m
• Swedish: majssirap c, glukossirap från majs c
• Turkish: mısır şurubu