cob
Example Sentences
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Pedersen broke down her options while sitting on a pinkish firepit and curved bench made from cob.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025
Meanwhile, I can barely look at a corn on the cob without flinching.
From Salon • Dec. 15, 2024
The researchers did find genes related to cob size -- perhaps representing an increased yield potential -- and flowering time, which likely helped maize, a tropical crop, to grow at higher latitudes with longer days.
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2023
Indeed, the only maize sample the team found without mexicana ancestry was a 5500-year-old cob from the southern coast of Peru, thousands of kilometers away from where the hybridization was taking place.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 29, 2023
I mean, one minute you’d see her snapping string beans and cutting corn off the cob.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
