corncob
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See also: corn-cob
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Pronunciation[edit]
- (rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈkɔɹnkɒb/
- (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːnkɒb/
- (US) enPR: kôrnʹkŏb, IPA(key): [ˈkɔɹnkɑb]
- Hyphenation: corn‧cob
Noun[edit]
corncob (plural corncobs)
- The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows.
- 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The “Breakfast-Table” Series, George Routledge and Sons (1882), page 23:
- London is like a shelled corncob on the Derby day, and there is not a clerk who could raise the money to hire a saddle with an old hack under it that can sit down on his office-stool the next day without wincing.
- 1922, ed. Henry Haven Windsor, "Corncob Seen as Source of New Industry", Popular Mechanics, volume XXXVIII, page 765:
- Six years of persistent research at the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, has resulted in establishing the fact that a number of interesting and useful by-products can be derived from the humble corncob.
- 2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters Street, Random House, ISBN 978-1-4000-6833-3, page 32:
- He bit into a corncob, and Chisom watched him munch with his mouth open, his jaws working the corn like a mini grinding machine.
- 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The “Breakfast-Table” Series, George Routledge and Sons (1882), page 23:
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Translations[edit]
core of an ear of corn
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