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CORNMEAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cornmeal mean?
• CORNMEAL (noun)
The noun CORNMEAL has 1 sense:
1. coarsely ground corn
Familiarity information: CORNMEAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coarsely ground corn
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
cornmeal; Indian meal
Hypernyms ("cornmeal" is a kind of...):
meal (coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse)
Holonyms ("cornmeal" is a substance of...):
hoecake (thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern))
cornmeal mush; mush (cornmeal boiled in water)
polenta (a thick mush made of cornmeal boiled in stock or water)
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