sweet corn plant

Questions about sweet corn plant

What does sweet corn plant mean?

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

What is another word for sweet corn plant?

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

sweet corn plant 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.