hard corn
noun
1Any of various crops (including cereals and beans) that have a hard grain or are winter hardy, especially wheat and rye (now historical and rare ).
2(Originally and chiefly US ) a type of maize having particularly hard kernels.
Origin
Late Middle English.
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