"corn" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Indian corn primarily means maize (the staple grain of indigenous Americans), but can refer more specifically to multicolored "flint corn" used for decoration.
- They could just hoe their tough old flint corn and call it a day.
- Because flint corn has a very low water content it is more resistant to freezing than other vegetables.
- The coloration of flint corn is often different from white and yellow dent corns, many of which were bred later.
- Most flint corn is multi-colored.
- During this period, they began to cultivate gardens of maize (flint corn in particular) and squash, but no beans.
- It sells 350 kinds of seeds - everything from argyrosperma squash to flint corn - as well as Indian tribal handcrafts.
- Some wild types will pop, but the cultivated strain is Zea mays everta, which is a special kind of flint corn.
- A. You have a bumper crop of flint corn, which is just as hard as its name suggests.
- (Popcorn is known as flint corn today, needing heat to expand what little moisture there is, thus causing the pop.)
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