1780 W. Dunbar Diary 27 May in E.O. Rowland (1930) 73 Planted white Corn & goard Seed Corn.
1831 J. M. Peck ii. 38 The species of corn called the gourd seed.
1835 6 173 The rich scenery of forty acres of most luxuriant gourd-seed corn.
1872 E. Eggleston viii. 60 The relative merits of ‘gourd-seed’ and ‘flint corn’.