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CORN SILK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does corn silk mean?
• CORN SILK (noun)
The noun CORN SILK has 1 sense:
1. each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn
Familiarity information: CORN SILK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
corn silk; cornsilk
Hypernyms ("corn silk" is a kind of...):
style ((botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma)
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