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cornsilk

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Noun1.cornsilk - each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn
corn silk
style - (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma


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things her fingers clutched were husk and cornsilk hair.
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