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# corn

«corn» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tall plant with yellow seeds on a cob, also called…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (corn; uncountable; a corncob, ears of corn)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In the USA, Canada and Australia, corn is a tall plant with yellow seeds on a cob, also called maize or sweetcorn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corn/#m1)

2) In the UK and Ireland, corn can mean any grain crop such as wheat, barley or oats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corn/#m2)

3) A corn is a small hard painful patch of skin on the foot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corn/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography lessons, corn is a crop farmers grow, used for food, animal feed and popcorn. In everyday life: corn on the cob, cornflakes, popcorn, cornflour. In history, corn was a key food of Native American peoples. Phrases: «corn on the cob», «field of corn», «sweetcorn», «popcorn».

### examples

- We ate corn on the cob with butter at the barbecue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corn/#x1)
- The farmer grows corn and beans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corn/#x2)
- Popcorn is made from a special kind of corn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corn/#x3)
- In the story, the children hid in the tall corn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corn/#x4)
- Corn grows in rows in big fields. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corn/#x5)
- Cornflakes are made from corn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corn/#x6)
- Her new shoes gave her a corn on her toe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corn/#x7)
- "Who sowed this sort of corn?" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corn/#x8)

### note

Usually uncountable: «some corn», not «a corn» (except the foot sense). The meaning depends on the country: in Britain «corn» can mean wheat; «sweetcorn» or «maize» is the yellow one. In maths, it appears in counting and sharing problems (cobs, rows, kilograms of corn).

### In the corpora

- [Maize, or corn, is a grass too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world/3/)
- [And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1359/)
- [And he said: 'Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1361/)
- [And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1363/)
- [And they laded their asses with their corn, and departed thence.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1387/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «corn» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corn/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.