field corn

field corn

n.

Any of several varieties of corn used primarily as feed for livestock.

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field corn - corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain corn, Indian corn, maize, Zea mays - tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times dent corn, Zea mays indentata - corn whose kernels contain both hard and soft starch and become indented at maturity flint corn, flint maize, Yankee corn, Zea mays indurata - corn having kernels with a hard outer layer enclosing the soft endosperm flour corn, soft corn, squaw corn, Zea mays amylacea - corn having kernels almost entirely of soft starch field crop - a crop (other than fruits or vegetables) that is grown for agricultural purposes; "cotton, hay, and grain are field crops"