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Old 09-Sep-2008, 22:31
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Is corn countable?

If I see a corn in the supermarket and ask?

What's this
It is a corn

I think I'm confused what is corn. Is it the little yellow things that are corns or that whole thing is corn?

I also heard "ear " and "cob" . How are these word combine with the word corn and what do ear and cob mean?
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There are two meanings for "corn". 1 chiefly Brit. the chief cereal crop of a district, especially (in England) wheat or (in Scotland) oats. 2 N. Amer. & Austral./NZ maize, the ears of which are corn on the cob. Corn is uncountable in both cases. You would ask for "two cobs".

The ears of all corn are the seed-bearing heads.
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