indian corn in English

noun

type of corn first developed by the American Indians

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1. Cornstarch is manufactured from Indian corn.

2. Corn is also called " Indian corn ".

3. Noun Also called Indian Corn; especially technical and British, maize

4. Corn, (Zea mays), also called Indian Corn or maize, cereal plant of the grass family (Poaceae) and its edible grain

5. In the 15th century Samuel de Champlain and Gabriel Sagard recorded that the Iroquois and Huron cultivated the soil for maize or "Indian corn".

6. One source quotes a letter saying that the plowing was done very "Bungerly." (4) There were berries and "Indian corn," but the first winter, at least, they almost certainly depended heavily for food on the largess of Welsh neighbors who had arrived in the 1680's and settled on a 40,000 acre "barony" to the south, where Philadelphia now (in 1998