NOUN
- a corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating
- corn that can be eaten as a vegetable while still young and soft
How To Use green corn In A Sentence
- In winter one sometimes finds a flock that has adopted a field of springing green corn to feed in. Times, Sunday Times
- At the corner of a field of green corn a concrete gravestone lies tumbled flat. Times, Sunday Times
- However, in spite of this difference in quality, color, and season, all kinds of corn used as a vegetable are called _green corn_ and may be prepared in exactly the same ways. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables
- At points like Green Corner or any of the other intersections along Park Street, a handful of policemen could be seen, wholly incapable of preventing crime or intercepting criminals.
- It was very simple, the unexpected swallows and the sun and the green corn.
- A stiff north-westerly wind blew bracingly in from the grey and ochre ocean, soughing noisily through a field of high green corn stalks, bending the inland ash and thorn and willow, scraping the short turf and the bare headlands. Margaret Drabble | Trespassing
- Gary Firkins has managed to put it in -- tall, impossibly green corn. Harold allinson
- In winter one sometimes finds a flock that has adopted a field of springing green corn to feed in. Times, Sunday Times
- The sky was blue, the larks was soaring high over the green corn.
- Or again, it might be a stern El Greco horizon, pregnant with inky rain, and a passing glimpse of some mummy-necked farmer, and all around alternating stripe of quicksilverish water and harsh green corn, the whole arrangement opening like a fan, somewhere in Kansas. Nabokov's Art as Story
