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S: (n) corn, maize, Indian corn, Zea mays (tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times)

S: (n) cereal, cereal grass (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)

S: (n) grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

S: (n) gramineous plant, graminaceous plant (cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves)

S: (n) herb, herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

S: (n) vascular plant, tracheophyte (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)

S: (n) plant, flora, plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)

S: (n) organism, being (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

S: (n) whole, unit (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity) "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit"

S: (n) object, physical object (a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow) "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects"

S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))

S: (n) corn (the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal)
S: (n) corn, edible corn (ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food)
S: (n) corn, clavus (a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes)
S: (n) corn ((Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland))
S: (n) corn whiskey, corn whisky, corn (whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn)
S: (n) corn (something sentimental or trite) "that movie was pure corn"