flour corn

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   corn having kernels almost entirely of soft starch

   Synonymssoft cornsquaw cornZea mays amylacea

   Broaderfield corn

Questions about flour corn

What does flour corn mean?

flour corn means "corn having kernels almost entirely of soft starch".

What is another word for flour corn?

Close synonyms include soft corn, squaw corn, Zea mays amylacea. 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 flour corn a common word?

flour corn is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.