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corn plant
noun
- any of several treelike tropical plants of the genus Draecena, especially D. fragrans massangeana, widely cultivated as a houseplant.
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In the corn plant the starch is stored chiefly in the grain, and not in the subterranean portions, as in the potato.
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One boy in a New York State camp did carefully hoe out and pull up every corn plant for a half-day, leaving weeds.
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Try to trace a single root of the corn plant from the stalk to its very tip.
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Professor Forbes, in his study of the corn plant louse, found that in spring ants mine along the principal roots of the corn.
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Whilst this little cob is forming, a bunch, or tassel, of flowers is forming on the top of the corn plant.
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