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  • 41Corn allergy — Corn/Maize allergy is a type of food allergy. It can be a difficult allergy to manage, particularly in the United States, due to the high number of food products which contain various forms of corn, such as corn starch, citric acid, modified food …

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  • 42Corn steep liquor — is a by product of corn wet milling.[1] It is an important constituent of some growth media. It was used in the culturing of Penicillium during research into penicillin, by American microbiologist Andrew J. Moyer.[citation needed] It is an… …

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  • 43corn on the cob — corn on the cobs also corn on the cob N VAR Corn on the cob is the long rounded part of the maize or corn plant on which small yellow seeds grow, and which is eaten as a vegetable …

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  • 44corn — S3 [ko:n US ko:rn] n [Sense: 1 2; Origin: Old English] [Sense: 3; Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: corne horn, corner ; CORNER1] 1.) [U] BrE plants such as wheat, ↑barley …

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  • 45corn on the cob — ► corn on the cob maize when cooked and eaten straight from the cob. Main Entry: ↑corn …

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  • 46corn — Ⅰ. corn [1] ► NOUN 1) chiefly Brit. the chief cereal crop of a district, especially (in England) wheat or (in Scotland) oats. 2) N. Amer. & Austral./NZ maize. 3) informal something banal or sentimental. ► VERB (corned) ▪ preser …

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  • 47corn — [ kɔrn ] noun *** 1. ) uncount a tall plant with large yellow seeds on a COB (=thick piece of stem). British usually maize a ) the seeds of a corn plant that are cooked as food or fed to animals 2. ) count a small piece of hard skin on your foot… …

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  • 48Cob — Cob, n. [Cf. AS. cop, copp, head, top, D. kop, G. kopf, kuppe, LL. cuppa cup (cf. E. brainpan), and also W. cob tuft, spider, cop, copa, top, summit, cobio to thump. Cf. {Cop} top, {Cup}, n.] 1. The top or head of anything. [Obs.] W. Gifford.… …

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  • 49Cob coal — Cob Cob, n. [Cf. AS. cop, copp, head, top, D. kop, G. kopf, kuppe, LL. cuppa cup (cf. E. brainpan), and also W. cob tuft, spider, cop, copa, top, summit, cobio to thump. Cf. {Cop} top, {Cup}, n.] 1. The top or head of anything. [Obs.] W. Gifford …

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  • 50Cob loaf — Cob Cob, n. [Cf. AS. cop, copp, head, top, D. kop, G. kopf, kuppe, LL. cuppa cup (cf. E. brainpan), and also W. cob tuft, spider, cop, copa, top, summit, cobio to thump. Cf. {Cop} top, {Cup}, n.] 1. The top or head of anything. [Obs.] W. Gifford …

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