…the chief cereal crop of a district, especially (in England) wheat or (in Scotland) oats…
…a small, painful area of thickened skin on the foot, especially on the toes, caused by pressure…
…individual cobs of maize which have been harvested when very small and immature, eaten as a vegetable…
…name for parts of the US Midwest, especially Illinois and Iowa, where corn is a major crop…
…a bin or ventilated building for storing unhusked ears of corn…
…a hot dog covered in maize-flour batter, fried, and served on a stick…
…(in the UK) a series of 19th-century laws introduced to protect British farmers from foreign competition by allowing grain to be imported only after the price of home-grown wheat had risen above a certain level. They had the unintended effect of forcing up bread prices and were eventually repealed in 1846…
…an oil obtained from the germ of maize, used in cookery and salad dressings…
…snow with a rough granular surface resulting from alternate thawing and freezing…
…a symbolic or decorative model of a human figure, made of plaited straw…
…a long North American rat snake with a spear-shaped mark between the eyes…
…the tender ears of young sweet corn, suitable for cooking and eating…
…a type of maize with large brown and yellow grains, not usually eaten but used to make decorations at festivals such as Thanksgiving…
…a large thickset Eurasian bunting with brown streaked plumage and a jangling song, inhabiting open grassland and arable land…
…an American moth caterpillar which is a pest of both maize and cotton…
…(in the UK) a building where corn is or was traded, typically a hall now converted for other public use…
…a daisy-like yellow-flowered Eurasian plant which was formerly a common weed of cornfields…
…put in a lot of effort to show that one deserves one’s wages…
…maize when cooked and eaten straight from the cob…
…a pressure group formed in Britain in 1838 to campaign for the repeal of the Corn Laws, under the leadership of Richard Cobden and John Bright…
…the central cylindrical woody part of the maize ear to which the grains are attached…
…meal made from corn, especially (in the US) maize flour or (in Scotland) oatmeal…
…(especially among black people) a style of braiding and plaiting the hair in narrow strips to form geometric patterns on the scalp…
…unleavened maize bread in the form of flat oval cakes or loaves, originally as prepared with water by North American Indians and cooked in hot ashes…
…a herbaceous plant with showy flowers, milky sap, and rounded seed capsules. Many poppies contain alkaloids and are a source of drugs such as morphine and codeine…
…a small widely distributed plant of the pink family, with pink or white flowers…
…a herbaceous plant with showy flowers, milky sap, and rounded seed capsules. Many poppies contain alkaloids and are a source of drugs such as morphine and codeine…
…a small widely distributed plant of the pink family, with pink or white flowers…
…used in names of plants with yellow flowers other than true marigolds, e.g. corn marigold, marsh marigold…
