CORNSILK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cornsilk mean? 

• CORNSILK (noun)
  The noun CORNSILK has 1 sense:

1. each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn

  Familiarity information: CORNSILK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORNSILK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

corn silk; cornsilk

Hypernyms ("cornsilk" is a kind of...):

style ((botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma)