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field corn

noun

  1. feed corn grown for stock.


field corn

noun

  1. any variety of corn that is grown as a feed for livestock
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of field corn1

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
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Example Sentences

They grow corn for the commodity market, mostly yellow dent, a starchy type of field corn that accounts for about 95 percent of all corn grown in the United States.

Hominy is dried field corn that, when soaked or cooked in an alkaline solution, turns soft and pudgy.

Dent and flint are both types of field corn, which is a far cry from the sweet corn you eat off the cob.

Improved varieties of field corn will ripen during favorable seasons.

The true pumpkin is hardly to be considered as a garden crop, and, as a rule, should be planted among the field corn.

Sweet corn is of American origin, having been developed from field corn, or maize.

Soil well adapted to common field corn will produce good sweet corn, thriving best on well fertilized land.

Sweet-corn seed often decays if put into the ground as early as field-corn.

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