cob

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Unlike materials like cob, straw bale is adopted in the California residential building code.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025

Will it be from eating corn on the cob?

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2024

The town this week unveiled several artistic works, including three statues of athletes and other monuments such as a maize cob and a milk fountain.

From BBC • Aug. 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

Corn could be eaten fresh off the cob or dried on the stalk, stored over the winter and ground into flour.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan