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Corn silk has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn

2

The fine soft yellowish threads that are the stigmata of corn flowers, which are later enclosed inside the husk of corn ears next to the kernels on corn cobs.

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style
Rhyming Words
ilk wilk bilk filk kilk milk silk thilk whilk desilk remilk soymilk cowmilk cornsilk raw silk sea silk goatmilk overmilk ice milk foremilk
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