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nounthe choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
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nounthe inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
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nouna single whole grain of a cereal
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- corn 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
- corn the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
- popcorn corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat
- popcorn small kernels of corn exploded by heat
- pistachio nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel
- nutshell the shell around the kernel of a nut
- bunt fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores
- maize 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
- corncob the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn
- 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