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Definition of Amelcorn
1. n. A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.
Definition of Amelcorn
1. Noun. A variety of wheat from which starch is produced. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amelcorn
1. a variety of wheat [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amelcorn
Literary usage of Amelcorn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The history of the worthies of England by Thomas Fuller (1840)
"amelcorn; and now having run round, we have not stirred a step, as to more
information of what we desired a kind of. At last, with long beating about, ..."
2. Boyer's French Dictionary: Comprising All the Improvements of the Latest by Abel Boyer (1849)
"... in like manner. amelcorn or French rice. SEMBLANCE, s. C. likeness. SEIGNEUR,
sI.gn/aur am lord, seignior; SEMBLANT, ..."
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