Noun: sandcorn
| Singular | sandcorn |
| Plural | sandcorns |
Sample Sentences
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[…] overflowing all with golden splendour, gilding mountains, trees, and grass, making all flowers glow in brilliant colours, throwing bright sparks upon each sandcorn, and causing golden waves to roll in the river of the plain. [1857, Oriental Fairy Tales, page 304:]
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It was the tradition of image-making which carried in its stream, as it were, those indispensable sandcorns of tasks. [2006, E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art: Pocket Edition, page 460:]
Nouns inflected like sandcorn
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English *sandcorn, from Old English sandcorn, from Proto-West Germanic *sandakorn, from Proto-Germanic *samdakurną, equivalent to sand + corn. Cognate with Dutch zandkoren, German Sandkorn, Swedish sandkorn, Icelandic sandkorn. See: Old English Nouns '
sandcorn', German Nouns '
Sandkorn', Swedish Nouns '
sandkorn'.