sugar corn

Questions about sugar corn

What does sugar corn mean?

sugar corn means "a corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating".

What is another word for sugar corn?

Close synonyms include sweet corn, green 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 sugar corn a common word?

sugar 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.