field corn

noun

feed corn grown for stock.

Nearby words

field capacity, field captain, field centre, field chickweed, field coil, field corn, field cornet, field cricket, field crop, field current, field day

Origin of field corn

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

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Examples from the Web for field corn

Sweet-corn seed often decays if put into the ground as early as field-corn.
ABC of Vegetable Gardening|Eben Eugene Rexford

British Dictionary definitions for field corn

field corn

noun

US any variety of corn that is grown as a feed for livestock

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