food grain vs corn

corn vs food grain

food grain and corn both are nouns.

food grain is not a verb while corn is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
food grain	Yes	No	No	No
corn	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, corn is a hyponym of food grain; that is, corn is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than food grain:

food grain: foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
corn: ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food

Other hyponyms of food grain include edible corn, grist, groats, millet, barley, barleycorn, buckwheat, wheat, wheat berry, oat, rice, Indian rice, wild rice, malt.

food grain (noun)	corn (noun)
foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses	something sentimental or trite
	ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
	whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent 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
	(Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)
	the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
	a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes

food grain (verb)	corn (verb)
	preserve with large-grained rock salt
	feed (cattle) with corn

Difference between food grain and corn

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