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Corn, Acorn, Unicorn
The production (below normal, or above normal in a crop year) of corn, and the evolution of unicorn companies make news for news and current affairs media. Corn is a cereal plant. Corn is the seed of a grain plant such as wheat, oats, rye, maize. Corn is usually ground to make flour. In the US, corn is maize A walk in the corn-field is a great idea, if you can manage to find one in your area.
The production (below normal, or above normal in a crop year) of corn, and the evolution of unicorn companies make news for news and current affairs media. Corn is a cereal plant. Corn is the seed of a grain plant such as wheat, oats, rye, maize. Corn is usually ground to make flour. In the US, corn is maize A walk in the corn-field is a great idea, if you can manage to find one in your area.
Corn has other meanings: informally corn refers to music, verse, drama that is not novel, that is not original or fresh, trite, banal, sentimental, hackneyed. Often much of music fails because it would have been a pure corn. Corn-cob is the top of a maize stalk on which the grains grow.
Corn on the cob is the maize cooked with grains attached to the stalk. Cornflakes (plural noun) is the breakfast made of maize (grain) by crushing and heating. Cornflour, or cornstarch is the finely ground flour made of maize, or rice. Cornflower is a plant variety growing cornfields.
One of the common sights of Indian street-scenes is a vendor selling grilled corns, or steamed-and-salted corns. The biggest corn producing countries are the US, Brazil and Argentina but the corn is a GM (Genetically Modified). Cornfields are a treat for some birds but a great loss for farmers. Another distinct meaning of corn is: corn is the hardened area of the skin on the foot, usually in the toe, that is often painful.
Tread on somebody corns or tread on somebody’s toes is an idiom meaning to offend or annoy somebody. The British legislated the Corn Laws in 1846 to restrict importing of corn in order to keep the prices high. Corn pone, or simply ‘pone’ is the baked or fried bread made of corn but without milk or eggs.
Acorn is the fruit of the Oaktree. Acorns have cup-like base. Big oaks from little acorns grow is an idiom. Unicorn has interesting meanings; mythically and digitally. In digital age, unicorn is a private firm valued at more than a $ 1 billion. The variants and derivatives of unicorn are unicorn root, uncornfish, unicornlike, uncornous.
Unicorn is a mythical animal. Mythically, unicorn is a horse but with a single straight horn projecting from the forehead.
