dent corn
Field corn with a high soft starch contentField corn with a high soft starch content.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)Field corn with a high soft starch content.
corn whose kernels contain both hard and soft starch and become indented at maturity
Origin
Named from the small indentation at the crown of each kernel on a ripe ear of corn.Named from the small indentation at the crown of each kernel on a ripe ear of corn.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Synonyms
2 synonymsClose in meaning
- corn whose kernels contain both hard and soft starch and become indented at maturity:Zea mays indentata
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable