| corn dance | a rain dance of Amerindians |
corn snake
red rat snake
Elaphe guttata | large harmless snake of southeastern United States, often on farms |
corn borer European corn borer moth
corn borer moth
Pyrausta nubilalis | native to Europe, in America the larvae bore into the stem and crown of corn and other plants |
| corn borer Pyrausta nubilalis | larva of the European corn borer moth, a serious pest of maize |
corn earworm
cotton bollworm
tomato fruitworm
tobacco budworm
vetchworm
Heliothis zia | larva of a noctuid moth, highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops |
| corn exchange | an exchange where grains are bought and sold |
| corn | something sentimental or trite, that movie was pure corn |
| corn gluten | gluten prepared from corn |
| corn gluten feed | a feed consisting primarily of corn gluten |
| barley water | used to feed infants |
| corn chowder | chowder containing corn |
| corn sugar | dextrose used as sweetening agent |
barley-sugar
barley candy | a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar |
| candy corn | a small yellow and white candy shaped to resemble a kernel of corn |
| corn pudding | pudding made of corn and cream and egg |
| corn fritter | fritter containing corn or corn kernels |
bully beef
corned beef
corn beef | beef cured or pickled in brine |
| corn oil | oil from the germs of corn grains |
| corn cake | baked in a pan or on a griddle (southern and midland) |
| skillet corn bread | cornbread usually containing ham or bacon bits and cooked in a skillet |
ashcake
ash cake
corn tash | corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (southern) |
corn dab
corn dodger
dodger | small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern) |
| corn muffin | cornbread muffin |
| corn flake | crisp flake made from corn |
| corn chip | thin piece of cornmeal dough fried |
corn
edible corn | ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food |
sweet corn
green corn | corn that can be eaten as a vegetable while still young and soft |
barley
barleycorn | a grain of barley |
| pearl barley | barley ground into small round pellets |
| corn syrup | syrup prepared from corn |
moonshine
bootleg
corn liquor | whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash |
corn whiskey
corn whisky
corn | whiskey distilled from a mash of not less thanpercent corn |
| Corn Belt | the midwestern states where corn is grown, Iowa and Illinois are excellent for raising corn and corn-fed livestock |
corncob
corn cob | the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn |
cornfield
corn field | a field planted with corn |
cornstalk
corn stalk | the stalk of a corn plant |
corn cockle
corn campion
crown-of-the-field
Agrostemma githago | European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed, a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways, naturalized in America |
corn spurry
corn spurrey
Spergula arvensis | small European weed with whorled leaves and white flowers |
corn poppy
field poppy
Flanders poppy
Papaver rhoeas | annual European poppy common in grain fields and often cultivated |
squirrel corn
Dicentra canadensis | American plant with creamolored flowers and tuberous roots resembling kernels of corn |
corn chamomile
field chamomile
corn mayweed Anthemis arvensis | European white-flowered weed naturalized in North America |
corn marigold
field marigold
Chrysanthemum segetum | European herb with bright yellow flowers, a common weed in grain fields |
scentless camomile
scentless false camomile
scentless mayweed
scentless hayweed
corn mayweed Tripleurospermum inodorum
Matricaria inodorum | ubiquitous European annual weed with white flowers and finely divided leaves naturalized and sometimes cultivated in eastern North America, sometimes included in genus Matricaria |
| barley | cultivated since prehistoric times, grown for forage and grain |
common barley
Hordeum vulgare | grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages |
barley grass
wall barley
Hordeum murinum | European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows |
squirreltail barley
foxtail barley
squirreltail grass
Hordeum jubatum | barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns, North America and northeastern Asia |
little barley
Hordeum pusillum | annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America |
great millet
kaffir
kafir corn
kaffir corn
Sorghum bicolor | important for human and animal food, growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves |
durra
doura
dourah
Egyptian corn
Indian millet Guinea corn | sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa |