| cornflour | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. cornflour, cornstarch | starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener. |
| ~ amylum, starch | a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles. |
| cornstarch | | |
| maize | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. 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. |
| ~ edible corn, corn | ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food. |
| ~ corn cob, corncob | the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn. |
| ~ corn stalk, cornstalk | the stalk of a corn plant. |
| ~ cereal, cereal grass | grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet. |
| ~ genus zea, zea | corn. |
| ~ field corn | corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain. |
| ~ green corn, sugar corn, sweet corn, sweet corn plant, zea mays rugosa, zea saccharata | a corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating. |
| ~ popcorn, zea mays everta | corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat. |
| ~ capitulum, spike, ear | fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. gamboge, lemon, lemon yellow, maize | a strong yellow color. |
| ~ yellow, yellowness | yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons. |
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