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corn meal

British  

noun

  1. Also called: Indian meal.  meal made from maize

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The latter has been easier to find in grocery stores these days, but if you can’t find corn flour, you can just substitute for more corn meal.

From Seattle Times Nov. 14, 2023

The box includes a pound of beautiful blue corn meal from Ancestral Foods, a Native-owned company based in Albuquerque.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 1, 2023

In the lab, they are fed a standard diet consisting of a slurry of malt, corn meal, yeast, agar and syrup.

From Scientific American Oct. 2, 2019

Had chicken and catfish fried in corn meal and was it good!”

From Washington Post Jul. 26, 2018

She dropped a pan of corn meal and started to follow Nigel out.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

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