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Definition of Popcorns
1. popcorn [n] - See also: popcorn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Popcorns
Literary usage of Popcorns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Yale Literary Magazine by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, Yale University (1871)
"But there are several instructive facts about popcorns. Everybody knows that the
kernels which pop the quickest are the best; those which just manage to ..."
2. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science by Indiana Academy of Science (1922)
"But it is only in the small-seeded flint varieties known as popcorns, and in some
of the sorghums, that the grain undergoes so great a change as is gen- ..."
3. South by West, Or, Winter in the Rocky Mountains and Spring in Mexico by Rose Georgina Kingsley (1874)
"... summoned to the Christmas-tree in the parlour, which was decorated, in place
of our holly-berries, with strings of raw cranberries and snowy popcorns, ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"The popcorns are a special group of flint corns used for " popping," as the name
suggests, for eating out of hand or in confections. ..."
5. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1873)
"... to the Christmas- tree in the parlour, which was decorated with strings of
raw cranberries and snowy popcorns, pretty to look at, and nice to eat. ..."
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