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CORN SILK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn
Synonyms:
corn silk; cornsilk
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("corn silk" is a kind of...):
style ((botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma)