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corn rose

British  

noun

  1. archaic any of several red-flowered weeds of cornfields, such as the corn poppy

"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 cost of corn rose more than 1%, to $6.04 a bushel, and oats gained 0.73%, to $3.46 per unit.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2023

The price of a bushel of corn rose by more than 100 percent from its low in August of 2020 to its high in May of this year.

From Salon • Nov. 14, 2021

In August, corn rose to $8.49 a bushel.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2012

Soybeans, planted later than corn, rose more than 20 percent over the same period and set a record high on the same day.

From Reuters • Aug. 8, 2012

All this was the effect of opinion, for the price of corn rose too quickly to allow any to be sent out of the kingdom, by the new law.

From An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged by Playfair, William

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