| 单词 | round corn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasround corn round corn n. now rare corn with rounded kernels (as opposed to elongated or flat ones); spec. a type of maize with small round kernels; maize of this type. ΚΠ 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed iii. vii. 355 They built a little Bark,..victualled with the round corne of the countrey, they call Mays. 1705 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire (ed. 2) ix. 208 They take care that it be handsom round Corn, of an equal Size, which some of them call Even-shooting Corn. 1883 Florist & Pomologist July 106/2 In crossing a large round corn with a very much wrinkled variety..the cross has appeared, not in a uniform blending of the parental forms. 1906 Crop Reporter Apr. 107/3 Round corn is to a certain extent preferred to the flat varieties by the British trade. 1932 Amer. Anthropologist 34 713 The first creation mentioned has reference to..perfect kernelled corn and round corn. < as lemmas |
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