- Yankee corn
- nouncorn having kernels with a hard outer layer enclosing the soft endosperm• Syn: ↑flint corn, ↑flint maize, ↑Zea mays indurata• Hypernyms: ↑field corn
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Useful english dictionary. 2012.
Yankee corn
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