1 [uncountable] British English plants such as wheat, barley, and oats or their seeds:
fields of corn
an ear of corn (=the top part of this plant where the seeds grow)
2 [uncountable]
a) American English a tall plant with large yellow seeds that grow together on a cob (=long hard part), which is cooked and eaten as a vegetable or fed to animals [= maize British English]
All our chickens are fed on corn.
➔ corn on the cob
b) the seeds of this plant ➔ sweetcorn
3 [countable] a painful area of thick hard skin on your foot
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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