field corn

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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

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