And then, Oh, my! how his heart went pitter-pat, for right in front of him, not forty hops away, sat Danny Fox on a three legged stool smoking a corncob pipe.
Source: tatoeba (11427251)
Corncob
//ˈkɔːn.kɒb//
Synonyms for "corncob" (58 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (29)
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13 entriesTranslations
62 translations across 38 languages.
Albanian
4 entries- kacarrum noun (core of an ear of corn)
- kalli noun (core of an ear of corn)
- koçan noun (core of an ear of corn)
- misërishte noun (core of an ear of corn)
Arabic
2 entries- كُوز الذُرَة noun (core of an ear of corn)
- كُوز ذُرَة noun (core of an ear of corn)
Bangi
1 entries- lisangu noun (core of an ear of corn)
Bulgarian
1 entries- кочан noun (core of an ear of corn)
Catalan
1 entries- panotxa noun (core of an ear of corn)
Catawba
1 entries- kus suk noun (core of an ear of corn)
Danish
1 entries- majskolbe noun (core of an ear of corn)
Finnish
1 entries- lapakko noun (core of an ear of corn)
French
1 entries- rafle noun (core of an ear of corn)
Galician
3 entries- carolo noun (core of an ear of corn)
- carozo noun (core of an ear of corn)
- cañoto noun (core of an ear of corn)
Georgian
2 entries- სიმინდის ტარო noun (core of an ear of corn)
- ტარო noun (core of an ear of corn)
German
1 entries- Maisspindel noun (core of an ear of corn)
Hebrew
1 entries- קֶלַח noun (core of an ear of corn)
Hungarian
2 entries- kukoricacsutka noun (core of an ear of corn)
- kukoricacső noun (core of an ear of corn)
Icelandic
2 entries- kólfur noun (core of an ear of corn)
- maískólfur noun (core of an ear of corn)
Indonesian
1 entries- tongkol jagung noun (core of an ear of corn)
Irish
1 entries- dias noun (core of an ear of corn)
Italian
2 entries- pannocchia noun (core of an ear of corn)
- tutolo noun (core of an ear of corn)
Japanese
1 entries- トウモロコシの芯 noun (core of an ear of corn)
Khmer
1 entries- បណ្ដូលពោត noun (core of an ear of corn)
Kikuyu
1 entries- mũcakwe noun (core of an ear of corn)
Macedonian
1 entries- кочан noun (core of an ear of corn)
Neapolitan
1 entries- sponza noun (core of an ear of corn)
Norwegian
1 entries- maiskolbe noun (core of an ear of corn)
Polish
2 entries- kaczan noun (core of an ear of corn)
- kolba kukurydzy noun (core of an ear of corn)
Portuguese
3 entries- espiga noun (core of an ear of corn)
- maçaroca noun (core of an ear of corn)
- sabugo noun (core of an ear of corn)
Quechua
1 entries- q'urunta noun (core of an ear of corn)
Romanian
1 entries- știulete noun (core of an ear of corn)
Russian
1 entries- сте́ржень кукуру́зного поча́тка noun (core of an ear of corn)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- klȋp noun (core of an ear of corn)
- кли̑п noun (core of an ear of corn)
Spanish
4 entries- carozo noun (core of an ear of corn)
- coronta noun (core of an ear of corn)
- marlo noun (core of an ear of corn)
- mazorca noun (core of an ear of corn)
Swedish
1 entries- majskolv noun (core of an ear of corn)
Tagalog
2 entries- busal noun (core of an ear of corn)
- busil noun (core of an ear of corn)
Taos
1 entries- kʼȍʼóna noun (core of an ear of corn)
Thai
1 entries- ซังข้าวโพด noun (core of an ear of corn)
Turkish
2 entries- koçan noun (core of an ear of corn)
- mısır koçanı noun (core of an ear of corn)
Urdu
1 entries- چھلی noun (core of an ear of corn)
Yucatec Maya
1 entries- xi'im xikin noun (core of an ear of corn)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
There, under the tree, there is a corncob.
Source: tatoeba (11965421)
London is like a shelled corncob on the Derby day, and there is not a clerk who could raise the money to hire a saddle with an old hack under it that can sit down on his office-stool the next day without wincing.
Source: wiktionary
Six years of persistent research at the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, has resulted in establishing the fact that a number of interesting and useful by-products can be derived from the humble corncob.
Source: wiktionary
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