<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Also called Indian corn: a tall cereal plant, <em>Zea mays</em>, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.</li><li>the grain, seeds, or kernels of this plant, used for human food or for fodder.</li><li>the ears of this plant.</li><li>the edible seed of certain other cereal plants, especially wheat in England and oats in Scotland.</li><li>sweet corn.</li><li>corn whiskey.</li><li>corn snow.</li><li>old-fashioned, trite, or mawkishly sentimental material, as a joke, a story, or music.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to preserve and season with salt in grains.</li><li>to preserve and season with brine.</li><li>to granulate, as gunpowder.</li><li>to plant (land) with corn.</li><li>to feed with corn.</li></ul>