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Webster 1913 Edition

Amelcorn

Am′el-cornˊ

,

Noun.

[Ger.

amelkorn

: cf. MHG.

amel

,

amer

, spelt, and L.

amylum

starch, Gr. [GREEK].]

A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; – called also

French rice

.