corn silk

1. 1.

   each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn

   Synonymscornsilk

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Questions about corn silk

What does corn silk mean?

corn silk means "each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn".

What is another word for corn silk?

Close synonyms include cornsilk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is corn silk a common word?

corn silk is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.