corn S3 /kɔːn $ kɔːrn/ BrE AmE noun
[ Sense 1-2: Language: Old English ]
[ Sense 3: Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: corne 'horn, corner' ; ⇨ ↑ corner 1 ]
1 . [uncountable] British English plants such as wheat, ↑ barley , and ↑ oats or their seeds:
fields of corn
an ear of corn (=the top part of this plant where the seeds grow)
2 .
[uncountable]
a) American English a tall plant with large yellow seeds that grow together on a ↑ cob (=long hard part) , which is cooked and eaten as a vegetable or fed to animals SYN maize British English :
All our chickens are fed on corn.
⇨ ↑ corn on the cob
b) the seeds of this plant ⇨ ↑ sweetcorn
3 . [countable] a painful area of thick hard skin on your foot