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corn rose

noun

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

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Words nearby corn rose

corn plant, corn pone, corn poppy, corn-root aphid, corn rootworm, corn rose, cornrow, corn salad, corn shock, corn shuck, corn silk
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  • Nevertheless, I would have used Gerarde's name, if the corn-rose were as much a rose as the corn-flag is a flag.

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