edible corn

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1.edible corn - ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human foodcorngreen corn, sweet corn - corn that can be eaten as a vegetable while still young and softhominy - hulled corn with the bran and germ removedpopcorn - small kernels of corn exploded by heatfood grain, grain, cereal - foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grassescorn, Indian corn, maize, Zea mays - tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian timesgreen corn, sugar corn, sweet corn, sweet corn plant, Zea mays rugosa, Zea saccharata - a corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating