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'''Corn''' is a generic term for staple food [[grain]]s of the family [[Poaceae]].

'''[[Corn]]''' most often refers to maize, the yellow, large-grained crop native to the Americas.

Originally it referred to the kernel of any grain, for instance, [[barleycorn]].

In various [[English language|English]] speaking countries, the term is now used for the most common staple food grain in the country.

In [[North America]], this is [[maize]]; in [[England]], this is [[wheat]]; and in [[Scotland]], [[oats]].

''Other countries?''

It can also refer to the main [[cereal]] crop of a country or region:

In Australia, this 'rule' does not apply. The term 'corn' here refers to [[sweetcorn]], a hybridised variety of [[maize]].

* [[Wheat]], barley and oats in England and Wales

* [[Oat]]s in Scotland and Ireland

'''Corn''' may also refer to:

''For the most part, this page functions like a [[wikipedia:disambiguation|disambiguation]] page in that it largely just points to other pages that might otherwise have this name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.''

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==Places==

* [[Corn, Lot]], France

* [[Corn, Oklahoma]], United States

==People ==

* [[Corn (surname)]], and persons with the name

* [[Corn Griffin]] (1911–1973), American heavyweight boxer

==Other uses==

* [[Corn (color)]]

* [[Corn (film)|''Corn'' (film)]], a 2004 movie

* [[Corn (pathology)]], an ingrowing callus often on the foot

* Corn, a type of [[Types of snow#On the ground|snow]]

*''[[Dracaena fragrans]]'' (cornstalk dracaena or happy plant), a flowering African shrub commonly kept as a house plant

==See also==

* [[Corne (disambiguation)]]

* [[Corny (disambiguation)]]

* [[Korn (disambiguation)]]

* [[Maize (disambiguation)]]

* [[Quorn (disambiguation)]]

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