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dent corn

dent corn noun: field corn with a high soft starch content.

Noun

dent corn (uncountable)

  1. Field corn with a high soft starch content.
    • The nondegerming system grinds corn, preferably white dent corn, into meal with little, if any, separation of germ.2000, Karel Kulp, Handbook of Cereal Science and Technology, Revised and Expanded, page 48
    Synonyms:
    grain corn

Synonyms of dent corn

Origin of dent corn

Named from the small indentation at the crown of each kernel on a ripe ear of corn.

Questions about dent corn

What does dent corn mean?
Dent corn means field corn with a high soft starch content.
What part of speech is dent corn?
Dent corn is a noun.

Words near dent corn in the dictionary

  1. densoviruses
  2. Denstone
  3. Densuș
  4. dent
  5. Dent Blanche
  6. dent corn
  7. Dent County
  8. dentable
  9. dental
  10. dental alveoli
  11. dental alveolus

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