corn-cob

See also: corncob

English

Noun

corn-cob (plural corn-cobs)

  1. Alternative spelling of corncob
    • 1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator [] , New York: American Publishing Company, page 539:
      It had a slender stem several feet high, and from its top stood up a single tongue of flame, an intensely red flower of the size and shape of a small corn-cob.
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