Corn

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Corn may refer to:

Contents 1 Agriculture and food 2 People 3 Places 4 Other uses 5 See also

[edit] Agriculture and food

• In North American usage, the cereal crop maize, also called field corn or Indian corn; including the variety sweet corn, which is a culinary vegetable.

• Traditionally, and still outside North America, corn is a general word for cereal crops and their grain including:
  • Wheat
  • Barley
  • Oat
  • Rye

[edit] People

• Alfred Corn (born 1943), American poet and essayist
• Blue Corn (c. 1920–1999), also known as Crucita Calabaza, female Native American potter
• David Corn, American political journalist and author
• Kevin Corn, American voice actor
• Rob Corn, American television producer and director
• Corn Griffin (born 1911), American heavyweight boxer
• Corn Mo, stage name of Jon Cunningham, a Brooklyn-based musician
• Cornstalk (c.1720–1777), prominent leader of the Shawnee people

[edit] Places

• Corn, Lot, a commune of the Lot department in France
• Corn, Oklahoma, town in Washita County, Oklahoma, United States
• Corn Holm, small tidal island in the Orkneys
• Corn Hill, Longford, hill in County Longford, Ireland,
• Corn Islands, two islands about 70 km east of the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua
• Corn Island (Kentucky), now-vanished island in the Ohio River
• Corn Palace, multi-purpose arena/facility located in Mitchell, South Dakota
• Corn Springs, palm oasis in the Chuckwalla Mountains of the Colorado Desert

[edit] Other uses

• Corn (color)
• Corn, a type of snow
• Corn (callus), an ingrowing callus often on the foot
• Corn (emulator), software emulator of the Nintendo 64 games console
• Corn (film), a 2004 drama-thriller starring Jena Malone

[edit] See also

• Corne (disambiguation)
• Korn (disambiguation)
• Peppercorn (disambiguation)
• Barleycorn (disambiguation)
• Corny (disambiguation)
• Cornhole (disambiguation)
• Corned beef
• Great Cornholio
• Corn dolly

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