corn silk

Other forms: corn silks

Definitions of corn silk
  1. noun
    each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn
    synonyms: cornsilk
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    (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma
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