🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

トウモロコシ

Pronunciation / Transliteration: tōmorokoshi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Corn/kɔːrn/
nounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #1450 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"トウモロコシは日本の夏の風物詩です。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A tall plant that produces yellow seeds, commonly used as food.

    "The farmer harvested corn from the fields during the summer."
  2. 2

    The seeds of the corn plant, often used as food for humans and animals.

    "They served corn on the cob at the barbecue."

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Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Proto-Germanic *kurnam meaning 'grain' or 'small seed', with roots tracing back to Indo-European *ǵm̥no-. Historically in British English, it referred to the chief cereal crop grown in a particular region (such as wheat or oats), whereas in North America it came to exclusively signify maize.

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