Corn
Corn noun - Something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Confederate President Jefferson Davis realized this tendency of his people near the beginning of the war, remarking, We are about to grind the seed corn of the nation.
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After being driven off by a cult near Los Angeles, the only even remotely friendly survivors he runs across are a Native American settlement outside Albuquerque ( from whom his sons are able to secure seed corn on a later trip), the sharecroppers mentioned above, and the couple in New York.
Source: Literature / Earth Abides
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Seed and Corn. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/corn/seed
Corn & Seed. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/corn/seed>.
Seed or Corn. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/corn/seed.
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