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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE |
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CORN (a common Teutonic word; cf. Lat. granum, seed, grain) , originally meaning a small hard particle or grain , as of sand, salt, gunpowder, &c. It thus came to be applied to the small hard seed of a plant, as still used in the words barley-corn and pepper-corn. In agriculture it is generally applied to the seed of the cereal plants. It is often locally understood to mean that kind of cereal which is the leading crop of the district
1 According to Willoughby it was formerly the custom to carry the cormorant
Scotland and Ireland to oats, and in the United States to maize (Indian corn). See. GRAIN TRADE
LAWS
The term
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