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Definition of Sugar corn
1. Noun. A corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating.
Group relationships: Corn, Edible Corn
Generic synonyms: Corn, Indian Corn, Maize, Zea Mays
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sugar Corn
Literary usage of Sugar corn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1880)
"7.62 The Egyptian sugar-corn, fresh, contained sugar 3.94 Early Amber cane, fresh,
... 28.9 per cent, of the sugar present in Egyptian sugar-corn. ..."
2. The Corn Crops: A Discussion of Maize, Kafirs, and Sorghums as Grown in the by Edward Gerrard Montgomery (1913)
"... XXII SWEET CORN OR sugar corn BY ALBERT E. WILKINSON SWEET corn is grown
chiefly as a vegetable for table use, although the stover is usually harvested ..."
3. Cobbett's Political Registerby William Cobbett by William Cobbett (1807)
"... on the Vice Society, 117 JLV on the Income Tax, 120 RW on the Prostitution
Society, 130 Ï.. on Sugar, Corn, Malt, ..."
4. 1795-1895. One Hundred Years of American Commerce ...: A History of American by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1895)
"There he met Mr. CE Sears, who was engaged in drying sugar-corn, such as is known
as shaker corn. He found he could purchase cut corn, fresh and sweet, ..."
5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1871)
"The ears of the sugar corn had a few of the hard, white grains of the garden
corn ; and the latter, in the row nearest it had also some grains of the sugar ..."
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