Definition of "green corn" []

• Young, tender ears of sweet corn. (noun)

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• "Pussey and Leo and I stood round the terrible thing hoisted on a piece of broken paling, and the green corn whispered around us."
• "His beautiful woods are gone; the green corn grows where the green trees grew, and the bruised and torn face of his mother earth muddies to disgust, with her clay-freighted tears, the limpid streams by which he sat down to rest, and from which he drank to quench his thirst from weariness earned in his hunt for wild game, which grew with him, and grew for him, as nature's provision."
• ""We call this even now," adjutant W. M. Owen wrote after some twenty years, "the green corn campaign.""