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单词 rice corn
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rice corn
rice corn n. (a) rice as a food grain (see sense 1); (also) a grain of rice (obsolete); (b) a variety of maize having small pointed kernels (now rare).
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. Table Rice corne described.
1676 N. Grew Disc. Salts Plants ii. §6 The Crystals..were about the bigness of a Rice-Corn.
1795 T. Maurice Hist. Hindostan I. 18 It is in the sign Virgo, who, as Sir William Jones observes on that zodiac, ‘is drawn standing on a boat in water, holding in one hand a lamp, and in the other an ear of rice-corn’.
1840 Mag. Hort. Dec. 450 John M. Ives exhibited a very curious and interesting variety of corn, called ‘Rice corn’.
1866 E. Enfield Indian Corn 241 In feeding fowls and most kinds of poultry the rice corn and other small varieties are found to be well adapted.
1916 E. G. Montgomery Productive Farm Crops 47 There are two type of pop-corn known as rice corn, with pointed kernels, and pearl pop-corn, with round kernels.
1938 B. Damon Grandma 168 It must be ‘rice’ corn: the sharp spikes made shelling painful, but the flavor was esteemed better.
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