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Cornhusk vs Cornstalk - What's the difference?

cornhusk | cornstalk |

As nouns the difference between cornhusk and cornstalk

is that cornhusk is the husk of an ear of corn while cornstalk is (botany) the tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.

cornhusk

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The husk of an ear of corn.

    • cornstalk

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.
  • (botany) A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.
  • (Australia, slang, obsolete) A non-indigenous person born in Australia. A few decades earlier he[a non-indigenous person of Australian birth] would have been nicknamed a ‘cornstalk’, a sarcastic reference to the way in which Australian children, like colonial wheat, grew fast and gangly; but labels could change with great rapidity, and by 1882 ‘cornstalk’ had become a caustic term for the New South Welsh.
  • (Australia, slang, pejorative) a non-indigenous native of New South Wales.
    • He's a bloody cornstalk .

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