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corn on the cob en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Cooked ears of corn (maize, specifically sweet corn).
   • Every day I ordered a salad, two corns on the cob, and some vegetable stirfry (which wasn’t too bad, but also had to be rinsed), but the bulk of my meal would be fruit. 2014, Shani Krebs, Dragons & Butterflies: Sentenced to Die, Choosing to Live, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, →ISBN, page 621:
   • […] we ate grilled corn on the cob from street vendors in the colonnades. 2013, Henriette Lazaridis Power, The Clover House: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 405:

Forms

Hypernyms

sweet corn · corn · maize

Relateds

corncob

Synonyms

long maize · pole corn · sweet pole · cornstick · butterpop · maize on the cob

Translations (31)

et maisitõlvik (cooked ears of corn) · pt milho na espiga (cooked ears of corn) · nl maiskolf (cooked ears of corn) · my ပြောင်းဖူးပြုတ် (cooked ears of corn) · es mazorca de maíz (cooked ears of corn) · pa چھلی (cooked ears of corn) · pt milho cozido (cooked ears of corn) · nb maiskolbe (cooked ears of corn) · ja 玉蜀黍 (cooked ears of corn) · pl kolba kukurydzy (cooked ears of corn) · ja 唐黍 (cooked ears of corn) · cmn 玉米棒 (cooked ears of corn) · nn maiskolbe (cooked ears of corn) · fi maissintähkä (cooked ears of corn) · sv majskolv (cooked ears of corn) · nl maïskolf (cooked ears of corn) · yi פּאַפּשוי אויפֿן קאַטשן (cooked ears of corn) · ru варёная кукуру́за (cooked ears of corn) · ja 蜀黍 (cooked ears of corn) · yi פּשעניטשקע (cooked ears of corn) · es mazorca (cooked ears of corn) · ja モロコシ (cooked ears of corn) · ja トウモロコシ (cooked ears of corn) · ja トウキビ (cooked ears of corn) · yi קאַטשן (cooked ears of corn) · ro porumb (cooked ears of corn) · ta சுட்டச்சோளம் (cooked ears of corn) · cs vařená kukuřice (cooked ears of corn) · it pannocchia bollita (cooked ears of corn) · de Maiskolben (cooked ears of corn) · yi קאַטשן קוקורוזע (cooked ears of corn)