| 单词 | chicken corn |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschicken corn chicken corn n. [in sense (a) after French maïs à poulet (1812 or earlier)] †(a) a variety of maize having small ears with yellow seeds (obsolete); †(b) wheat of an inferior grade or type (cf. hen corn n. at hen n.1 Compounds 3) (obsolete); (c) U.S. sorghum, (in later use) esp. of an inferior type escaped from cultivation and considered to be a weed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > inferior grain hummel corn1474 multure corn1546 tailings1764 tail1775 chicken corna1817 screening1824 pilkins1859 tail-end1859 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > millet > Indian millet > Indian millet plant or panicle millc1450 millet1548 Saracen's corn1585 sorghum1597 Guinea corn1697 whisk1757 broom-straw1785 kaffir corn1785 jowari1800 jowar1801 chicken corna1817 broom corn1819 mabela1824 cholum1858 Texas millet1858 dura1882 pearl millet1887 kaoliang1904 proso1907 milo1920 a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) II. 312 The earliest, and smallest, of these [varieties of maize] is the Chicken corn. 1842 Leicester Chron. 3 Sept. In fact, what little chicken corn we have this year will make as much good bread as the best wheat of last season. 1854 B. L. C. Wailes Rep. Agric. & Geol. Mississippi iii. 188 I allude to the Holcas bicolor, Guinea Corn, or Chicken Corn, as it is variously termed. 1895 Wilts. County Mirror 27 Sept. 2/4 The second share has only yielded chicken corn. 1921 Weekly News Let. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 29 June 6/2 Since chicken corn is an annual, it should be readily destroyed during the cultivation of the corn. 2000 W. L. Rooney & C. W. Smith in C. W. Smith & R. A. Frederiksen Sorghum ii. iv. 331 These early introductions were probably race guinea and became known as guinea corn and chicken corn. < as lemmas |
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