| 单词 | sweet corn |
| 释义 | > as lemmassweet corn sweet corn n. U.S. a sweet-flavoured variety of maize. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > maize > maize plants maizea1544 Indian wheat1578 Guinea wheat1598 corn1608 sweet corn1646 Virginia wheat1651 soft corn1751 zea1760 popcorn1838 pod corn1884 pod maize1904 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > maize > types of green cornc1450 flint corn1705 flint1802 sweet corna1817 squaw corn1823 dent corn1853 tassel-corn1883 country gentleman1892 1646 E. Hopkins Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1863) 4th Ser. VI. 334 Wequash Cooks brother tooke from him..2 bushell of sweet corne. 1810 T. Jefferson Garden Bk. (1944) 424 [Sowed]..Sweet or shriveled corn in the N.W. corner. a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) I. 49 At New-Haven the sweet corn may be had in full perfection for the table by successive plantings from the middle of July to the middle of November. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xxii. 364 Cigarettes rolled with sweet corn husk were as honey to Buck's palate. 1917 G. F. Will & G. E. Hyde Corn among Indians 118 The Upper Missouri tribes prepared this ‘sweet corn’ for winter use in two ways: by boiling it in kettles, and by roasting it in fires. 1974 A. Price Other Paths to Glory ii. iii. 139 To the north..of the house there had been..a single tiny field of sweet corn. < as lemmas |
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