field corn

1. Corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain (synset 112164916)
   is a type of:

   • 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
   • field crop - a crop (other than fruits or vegetables) that is grown for agricultural purposes
   subtypes:

   • dent corn, zea mays indentata - corn whose kernels contain both hard and soft starch and become indented at maturity
   • flint corn, flint maize, yankee corn, zea mays indurata - corn having kernels with a hard outer layer enclosing the soft endosperm
   • flour corn, soft corn, squaw corn, zea mays amylacea - corn having kernels almost entirely of soft starch

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