sweet corn

See also: sweetcorn

English

Sweet corn

Alternative forms

• sweetcorn

Noun

sweet corn (countable and uncountable, plural sweet corns)

1. Any of many varieties of corn (specifically maize) most suitable for eating by humans, as distinguished from corn raised as animal feed; usually with higher sugar content than field corn.

Synonyms

• pole corn
• sugar corn

Derived terms

• sweetcorn bread

 

Translations

corn suitable for eating by humans

• Bulgarian: сла́дка ца́ревица f (sládka cárevica)
• Catalan: blat de moro dolç m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: suikermais (nl)
• Finnish: sokerimaissi (fi)
• French: maïs doux m
• German: Zuckermais m
• Greek: γλυκό καλαμπόκι n (glykó kalampóki)
• Hungarian: csemegekukorica (hu)
• Malay: jagung manis
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sukkermais m

  Nynorsk: sukkermais m

• Portuguese: milho verde m
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: maíz dulce m
• Welsh: india-corn m

Further reading

• sweet corn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Cornsweet, snowcrete