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corn on the cob
vs
maize
corn on the cob
noun
Cooked ears of corn (maize, specifically sweet corn).
maize
noun
Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.
How often have the words
corn on the cob
and
maize
occurred in a corpus of books?
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