hybrid corn

noun

1

: a corn resulting from crossbreeding

specifically : the grain of Indian corn developed by hybridizing two or more inbred strains

2

: the plant that is grown from the grain of hybrid corn and that conforms to a standard of desirable characteristics including increased size, yield, or disease resistance but whose own grain produces an inferior progeny

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