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Corn (disambiguation)

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Corn is a generic term for staple food grains of the family Poaceae. Originally it referred to the kernel of any grain, for instance, barleycorn. In various English speaking countries, the term is now used for some particular grain, often the most common staple food grain in the country. In North America, this is maize; in England, wheat; in Scotland, oats; in Australia, sweetcorn, a hybridised variety of maize.

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