sweet corn

See also: sweetcorn

English

Sweet corn

Alternative forms

sweetcorn

Noun

sweet corn (countable and uncountable, plural sweet corns)

Any of many varieties of corn (specifically maize) most suitable for eating by humans, as distinguished from corn raised as animal feed; usually with higher sugar content than field corn.

Synonyms

pole corn
sugar corn

Derived terms

sweetcorn bread

Translations

corn suitable for eating by humans

Bulgarian: сла́дка ца́ревица f (sládka cárevica)
Catalan: blat de moro dolç m
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: suikermais (nl)
Finnish: sokerimaissi (fi)
French: maïs doux m
German: Zuckermais m
Greek: γλυκό καλαμπόκι n (glykó kalampóki)
Hungarian: csemegekukorica (hu)
Malay: jagung manis
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sukkermais m

Nynorsk: sukkermais m
Portuguese: milho verde m
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: maíz dulce m
Welsh: india-corn m

Further reading

sweet corn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

Cornsweet, snowcrete

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