Definitions
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- adjective Resembling
corn (the cereal crop) or some aspect of it. - adjective Resembling a corn (pimple on the foot) or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The recipe is also a good place to use millet: Its cornlike flavor and grainy texture team nicely with the apricots and orange, and it cooks a little faster than brown rice.
The Food Matters Cookbook Mark Bittman 2010
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Here there were cornlike plants, with their ears getting ripe.
Isle of View Anthony, Piers 1990
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There had been times when meat had been scarce, and vermin as well, and he and Mother Mastiff had watched in wonderment as the reptile happily downed large portions of salted bread or pime, the cheap cornlike growths that infested many of Moth's softwoods.
The Tar-Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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There had been times when meat had been scarce, and vermin as well, and he and Mother Mastiff had watched in wonderment as the reptile happily downed large portions of salted bread or pime, the cheap cornlike growths that infested many of Moth's softwoods.
The Tar-Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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There had been times when meat had been scarce, and vermin as well, and he and Mother Mastiff had watched in wonderment as the reptile happily downed large portions of salted bread orpime, the cheap cornlike growths that infested many of Moth's softwoods.
Tar Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean 1972
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I feel like a caveman, picking at these red cornlike bits in my bowl.
Jurgen Nation . Com 2010
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