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单词 field corn
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field corn
field corn n. North American any of various kinds of maize with a relatively low sugar content, grown principally as animal food or for processing rather than for eating as a vegetable; frequently contrasted with sweet corn.
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1808 Mem. Philadelphia Soc. for Promoting Agric. 1 214 It became a field corn, and continued spiral, in some degree, for several years, till it gradually mixed with the common corn, and the distinct species was lost.
1900 Minnesota Horticulturalist Oct. 396 The varieties of sweet corn differ from the field corn in that they contain a greater abundance of sugar.
2006 Indianapolis Monthly Sept. 139/2 About 40 percent of U.S. field corn is genetically altered, a process that uses genes from other living organisms..to improve the crop.
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