corn
corn 英 [kɔ:n] 美 [kɔrn]
n. 玉米；
进行时:corning 过去式:corned 过去分词:corned 第三人称单数:corns 名词复数:corns
- Corn is a plant that grows long ears of kernels on tall, grass-like stalks. Many large farms grow fields of corn each year, for human or animals to eat, or to make corn-based products.
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- n. 玉米；
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1. This corn grows well.
这株玉米生长良好。
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2. a field of corn
一片玉米地
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3. corn-fed chicken
用玉米饲养的鸡
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4. We must reserve some of this corn for next year's seed.
我们必须把这种玉米留出一些作为明年的种子。
- corn (n.1) "grain," Old English corn "single seed of a cereal plant; seeds of cereal plants generally; plants which produce corn when growing in the field," from Proto-Germanic *kurnam "small seed" (source also of Old Frisian and Old Saxon korn "grain," Middle Dutch coren, German Korn, Old Norse korn, Gothic kaurn), from PIE root *gre-no- "grain."
- corn (n.2) "hardening or thickening of skin," early 15c., corne, from Old French corne (13c.) "horn (of an animal)," later "a corn on the foot," from Latin cornu "horn of an animal," from PIE root *ker- (1) "horn; head."
- corn (v.) 1550s, "to form into grains, granulate," from corn (n.1). From 1560s as "to preserve and season with grains ('corns') of salt." From 1785 (in corned) as "make drunk," as with corn whiskey. Corned beef has nothing to do with the grain; it is so called for the "corns" or "grains" of salt with which it is preserved.
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