Corn

What “Corn” means

Noun

1. Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
2. Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
3. A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.
4. A small, hard particle.
5. A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.

Verb

1. To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.
2. To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.
3. To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.
4. To render intoxicated.
5. To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).

Noun

1. A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
2. An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
3. Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.

Noun

1. Something (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.

Where the word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-nóm Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂-nós Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm Proto-Germanic *kurną Proto-West Germanic *korn Old English corn Middle English corn English corn 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”). Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum and Lithuanian žirnis. Doublet of grain, gram, granum, and grao. The sense maize (Zea mays) is an ellipsis of Indian corn that developed in 18th century North America.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ ? Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-der. Proto-Italic *kornū Latin cornū̆ Latin cornua Vulgar Latin *corna Old French cornebor. Middle English corne English cornInherited from Middle English corne, from Old French corn (modern French cor), from Latin cornū. Doublet of corno, cornu, and horn.

From corny.

Business name ideas with “Corn”

Industries where “Corn” fits

We suggest this word for 1 business types and industries, including:

• Wet Corn Milling