cornfield

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a field in which corn or another cereal crop is growing, especially a field of maize in North American English

   Rows of young maize stretched across the cornfield toward the road.

A compound of corn and field. Corn historically meant the principal cereal crop of a region, so a British cornfield might contain wheat or barley; in North American English corn narrowed chiefly to maize.

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