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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The leafy husk of an ear of corn.

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  • noun The husk of an ear of corn.

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  • noun the husk of an ear of corn

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Examples

  • Jesus Estrada, that is, the cornhusk wunderkind from Mexico.

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  • Pick up the two long sides of the cornhusk and unite them.

    Marcela Valladolid: Día de Los Muertos Marcela Valladolid 2010

  • Fold down the empty top section of the cornhusk and secure it by tying a thin strip of corn husk around the tamal (the top will be open).

    Marcela Valladolid: Día de Los Muertos Marcela Valladolid 2010

  • Pick up the two long sides of the cornhusk and unite them.

    Marcela Valladolid: Día de Los Muertos Marcela Valladolid 2010

  • Tear a cornhusk along the grain to make threads to tie the tamale ends.

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  • Fold down the empty top section of the cornhusk and secure it by tying a thin strip of corn husk around the tamal (the top will be open).

    Marcela Valladolid: Día de Los Muertos Marcela Valladolid 2010

  • Beverly invited us to the table and served us a delicious succotash made from hominy and a couple kinds of beans; bowls of neon-yellow cold squash; somiviki (fine blue-corn flour mixed with water and sugar then wrapped in cornhusk); fry bread, yellow watermelon; and Hopi tea (brewed from greenthread or thelesperma filifolium).

    Rachel Dickinson: Into Hopi Country Rachel Dickinson 2010

  • Beverly invited us to the table and served us a delicious succotash made from hominy and a couple kinds of beans; bowls of neon-yellow cold squash; somiviki (fine blue-corn flour mixed with water and sugar then wrapped in cornhusk); fry bread, yellow watermelon; and Hopi tea (brewed from greenthread or thelesperma filifolium).

    Rachel Dickinson: Into Hopi Country Rachel Dickinson 2010

  • Beverly invited us to the table and served us a delicious succotash made from hominy and a couple kinds of beans; bowls of neon-yellow cold squash; somiviki (fine blue-corn flour mixed with water and sugar then wrapped in cornhusk); fry bread, yellow watermelon; and Hopi tea (brewed from greenthread or thelesperma filifolium).

    Rachel Dickinson: Into Hopi Country Rachel Dickinson 2010

  • I went to a small, dark and dusty museum of "American Indians" in New York about 20 years ago which was epic FAIL I hope things have improved and came away with a cornhusk mask.

    Mad, Bad, & Sad: The French & Indian War Fresca 2010

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