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英:[fi:ld kɔ:n]
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noun
corn (such as dent corn or flint corn) with starchy kernels that are used especially as livestock feed or processed into food products (such as cornmeal, corn oil, and corn syrup) or ethanol
The first known use of field corn was in 1808
field magnetnoun
a magnet for producing and maintaining a magnetic field especially in a generator or electric motor
field hockeynoun
a game played on a field in which each team uses curved sticks to try to knock a ball into the other team's goal
field goalnoun
a score of three points in football made by kicking the ball over the crossbar during ordinary play
basket sense 3b
field glassnoun
a handheld instrument for seeing at a distance that consists of two telescopes, a focusing device, and usually prisms—usually used in plural
field eventnoun
an event in a track meet other than a race
field daynoun
a day of outdoor sports and athletic competition
a time of unusual pleasure or unexpected success
newspapers had a field day with the story
field cornnoun
corn with starchy kernels that are used for livestock feed or are processed into food products (as corn oil or corn syrup) or ethanol
1 Traditional street corn is more of a field corn.
2 Other varieties include dent or field corn, flour corn, and today’s subject: popcorn.
3 When just picked, sweet corn has at least twice the sugar content of field corn.
4 One of the studies analyzed field corn, lettuce and tomatoes grown in soil fertilized with MWRD sludge.
5 The rest is mostly field corn, which is used to make biofuels, animal feed and food additives.
6 Some farmers were forced to wait until early June to begin planting their field corn, two months later than normal.
7 While seed corn makes up less than one percent of the corn grown in the U.S. by acreage, commercial field corn exports rely on these hybrid seeds, making detasseling an essential part of the $75 billion industry.
8 The corn source depends on the type, with Iowa bringing in nearly 2.3 billion bushels of field corn, followed by Illinois with about 2.1 billion and Nebraska with almost 1.8 billion.