squirrel corn

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   American plant with cream-colored flowers and tuberous roots resembling kernels of corn

   SynonymsDicentra canadensis

   Broaderherb

Questions about squirrel corn

What does squirrel corn mean?

squirrel corn means "American plant with cream-colored flowers and tuberous roots resembling kernels of corn".

What is another word for squirrel corn?

Close synonyms include Dicentra canadensis. 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 squirrel corn a common word?

squirrel 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.