| NOUN | food | edible corn, corn | ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food |
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| Meaning | ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food. | |
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| Synonym | corn | |
| Part of | corn, maize, Indian corn, Zea mays | tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears |
| Parts | sweet corn, sugar corn, green corn, sweet corn plant, Zea mays rugosa, Zea saccharata | A corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating |
| Narrower | hominy | hulled corn with the bran and germ removed |
| popcorn | small kernels of corn exploded by heat | |
| sweet corn, green corn | Corn that can be eaten as a vegetable while still young / young and soft | |
| Broader | grain, food grain, cereal | foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses |
| Spanish | maíz | |
| Catalan | blat de moro, blat | |
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