CORN Synonyms

• made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it

• grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet

• foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

• a breakfast food prepared from grain

• a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River

• a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony

• a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing

• showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

• a relatively small granular particle of a substance

• foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

• the side of leather from which the hair has been removed

• a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat

• 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams

• 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams

• dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn

• a cereal grass

• the smallest possible unit of anything

• the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric

• the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)

• thoroughly work in

• paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood

• form into grains

• become granular

• hulled corn with the bran and germ removed

• the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone

• a single whole grain of a cereal

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• the food served and eaten at one time

• any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times

• coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse

• small drought-resistant sorghums having large yellow or whitish grains

• corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat

• small kernels of corn exploded by heat

• nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus

• stocky short-legged harness horse

• white gull having a black back and wings

• adult male swan

• a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes

• granular snow formed by alternate thawing and freezing

• whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn

• whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn

• ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food

• 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

• 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