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corn rose

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

    Proserpina, Volume 1

    John Ruskin