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Definition of Field corn
1. Noun. Corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain.
Specialized synonyms: Dent Corn, Zea Mays Indentata, Flint Corn, Flint Maize, Yankee Corn, Zea Mays Indurata, Flour Corn, Soft Corn, Squaw Corn, Zea Mays Amylacea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Corn
Literary usage of Field corn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"It. has been found in New York, New Jersey, and Michi- Pop-corn is much slower
in germinating than field corn and the plant is not so vigorous a grower. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"This fungicide, called Zineb, a carbamate, must be sprayed repeatedly to prevent
growth of the fungus; the treatment is too expensive for use on field corn, ..."
3. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1905)
"Sugar, during the fermentation, is converted into acetic acid, which makes your
silage' perhaps more sour than when common field corn is used. ..."
4. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1910)
"In sweet corn, as with field corn, the yield is an important item, ... The important
differences between sweet and field corn in the commercial methods of ..."
5. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"The rotation then has to be arranged so that the popcorn and field corn are not
... Where four cents per bushel of ears is paid for husking field corn, ..."
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