An American term for the dry outer husk that encloses an ear of corn (maize).
An American term for the dry outer husk that encloses an ear of corn (maize). Cornshucks have multiple traditional uses including wrapping tamales, stuffing mattresses, and making folk dolls. The word is particularly associated with Southern and rural American English and evokes traditional agricultural life.
They spent the afternoon stripping cornshucks for the tamale making.
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One who husks (as one who removes the husks, leaves, from ears of corn).
The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows.
(botany) A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.
(botany) The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.
(US) The husk covering an ear of corn.
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