any variety of corn that is grown as a feed for livestock
field corn in American English
US
any variety of corn grown for feeding livestock
field corn in American English
noun
feed corn grown for stock
Word origin
[1855–60, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1855–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: barrage, boilerplate, kickoff, lavabo, pipeline
Examples of 'field corn' in a sentence
field corn
The irrigation water requirements of seed and field corn in the growing seasons were 470.1 and 488.5 mm, respectively.
Minghong Tan, Luqian Zheng 2017, 'Different Irrigation Water Requirements of Seed Corn and Field Corn in the Heihe RiverBasin', Waterhttps://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/9/8/606. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)