why do ppl call "corn" corn kernels???? Does corn apply to a single piece of corn???

Question

lol, i am just curious...

Answer 1

I assume people would do so to specify that part of the corn, as opposed to the cob or husks. If you say just "corn," I think about a field of corn stalks or a serving of corn.

Answer 2

Corn refers to the entire cob and kernels. Each cob contains any kernels. once the kernels are of the cob, then they are corn kernels.

Answer 3

corn1  /kɔrn/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kawrn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun 1. Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
2. the grain, seeds, or kernels of this plant, used for human food or for fodder.
3. the ears of this plant.
4. the edible seed of certain other cereal plants, esp. wheat in England and oats in Scotland.
5. the plants themselves.
6. sweet corn.
7. corn whiskey.
8. Skiing. corn snow.
9. Informal. old-fashioned, trite, or mawkishly sentimental material, as a joke, a story, or music.
–verb (used with object) 10. to preserve and season with salt in grains.
11. to preserve and season with brine.
12. to granulate, as gunpowder.
13. to plant (land) with corn.
14. to feed with corn.


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[Origin: bef. 900; ME, OE; c. D koren, ON korn, G Korn, Goth kaúrn; akin to L grānum grain, Russ zernó]

Answer 4

corn is the plant, and kernals are the individual peices. but you can call any of it corn, even one peice.