11.07.08
Corn: Word for the Day
Corn: a small hard seed or seedlike fruit, especially the seed of any cereal plant; kernel; in England, wheat; in Scotland and Ireland, oats; grain [Websters 1957]
Maize: a kind of grain that grows in kernels on large ears, also called Indian corn or just corn in the US, Canada, and Australia [Webster’s 1957]
Corn: The various cereal or farinaceous grains which grow in ears, and are used for food, as wheat, oats, rye, barley, maize [Webster’s 1879]
Farinaceous: Consisting or made of meal or flour; yielding farina or flour [Webster’s 1879]
Farina: The flour of any species of corn, or starchy root, such as the potato, etc. [Webster’s 1879]
Of course there is also corny humor and corns which grow on feet, not to mention corn liquor. And there is probably a good bit of all those types of corn in Wayne County, OH. But in this photo it is corn being transferred after harvesting into a truck near Wooster.
