field corn

English

field corn

ears of mature field corn ready for harvesting

Noun

field corn (usually uncountable, plural field corns)

1. (US) Any variety of corn (maize) grown primarily for fodder or use as grain; usually, one with lower sugar content than sweet corn and harvested either to be stored dry (on the cob or off, divorced of the stover) or ensiled along with the stover.

   Hypernyms: corn (maize sense), maize < corn (grain sense), grain

   Coordinate term: sweet corn

   Near-synonyms: dent corn, grain corn

Related terms

• corn crib
• cornfield
• cornhusker

Translations

variety of corn

• Finnish: rehumaissi (fi)
• Polish: kukurydza pastewna f

See also

• field bean
• field pea

Anagrams

• cornfield