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Word entry · 4 letters

corn

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"Cob kernels"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɔːn/Part of speech verb, nounSorted cnorStarts with CEnds with N10 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. preserve with large-grained rock salt

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”).

Used in a sentence

  • “And hee ſaid, Beholde, I haue heard that there is corne in Egypt: get you downe thither and buy for vs from thence, that we may liue, and not die.”
  • “Among the divinities that dwelt on Mount Olympus, none was more friendly to the husbandman than Demeter, goddess of corn.”
  • “I found that we had nearly a hundred bushels of corn, including wheat, maize, and barley, to add to our store.”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer10 curated clues

01“Cob kernels”4 letters
02“Food on a cob”4 letters
03“Grain on a cob”4 letters
04“Kernel crop”4 letters
05“Maize”4 letters
06“Yellow cob crop”4 letters
07“Yellow crop on cobs”4 letters
08“Yellow kernels”4 letters
09“Yellow vegetable kernels”4 letters
10“Yellow grain”4 letters

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