FIELD CORN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does field corn mean? 

• FIELD CORN (noun)
  The noun FIELD CORN has 1 sense:

1. corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain

  Familiarity information: FIELD CORN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIELD CORN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("field corn" is a kind of...):

corn; Indian corn; maize; 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)

field crop (a crop (other than fruits or vegetables) that is grown for agricultural purposes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "field corn"):

dent corn; Zea mays indentata (corn whose kernels contain both hard and soft starch and become indented at maturity)

flint corn; flint maize; Yankee corn; Zea mays indurata (corn having kernels with a hard outer layer enclosing the soft endosperm)

flour corn; soft corn; squaw corn; Zea mays amylacea (corn having kernels almost entirely of soft starch)