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Definition of Dent corn
1. Noun. Corn whose kernels contain both hard and soft starch and become indented at maturity.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dent Corn
Literary usage of Dent corn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1905)
"Thus the red of certain dent corn, which lies in the pericarp, is not passed on
as xenia and McClure observed the same facts in experiments with cranberry ..."
2. Productive Farm Crops by Edward Gerrard Montgomery (1916)
"These types are pop-corn, flint corn, dent corn, soft corn, sweet corn, and pod
corn (Figs. 17 and 18). The classification is based principally on the ..."
3. The Corn Crops: A Discussion of Maize, Kafirs, and Sorghums as Grown in the by Edward Gerrard Montgomery (1913)
"This is explained by assuming that the germ cells (pollen grains or ovaries) are
either pure sweet corn or pure dent corn. When a plant is grown from a ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"Earn ill most varieties smaller and rows fewer (often 8) than in the dent corn.
Color of kernel white, yellow, red. blue, and variegated. ..."
5. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1916)
"From 1905 to 1914 over 2000 selected ears of Reid's Yellow dent corn have been
... Breeding Red dent corn. The purpose of this investigation is to determine ..."
6. Farm and Garden Rule-book: A Manual of Ready Rules and Reference with by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1911)
"... Corn and Potatoes Score-card for dent corn (Ohio Improvement Association) /•'••-
use in the final selection of teed eart 2. Seed condition 15 1. ..."
7. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"... dent corn, grain milk stage to mature 17 dent corn, immature 13 dent corn,
stage uncertain 4 dent corn, fine crushed (steers) 2 dent corn, fine crushed ..."
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