green corn

Questions about green corn

What does green corn mean?

green corn means "a corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for green corn?

Close synonyms include sweet corn, sugar corn, sweet corn plant, Zea mays rugosa, Zea saccharata. 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 green corn a common word?

green corn 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.