corn

About 16.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
2. noun Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
3. noun A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.

   He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.

4. noun A small, hard particle.
5. noun A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
6. noun Bullets, ammunition, and charge and discharge of firearms.
7. noun Money.
8. verb To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.

   to corn gunpowder

Similar words

maize wheat indian corn corn whiskey clavus corn whisky edible corn zea mays grain barley

Often followed by

and is in laws was to or for meal

Word family

Indian corn corned corning corns maize