Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

corn mummy

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English

Syllables: corn -mum-my
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An Ancient Egyptian sculpture of Osiris, often made of wax or earth, that contained germinated grain seeds (commonly wheat or barley).

Example Sentences

"[This] corn mummy had a mask of Osiris. The purpose of the corn mummy was to help the spirit of the deceased to join Osiris in the afterlife."
"[A] corn mummy from Ulm, showing sprouted barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) grains embedded in their soil matrix."
"[The] corn mummy from the year before was taken out of the coffin and buried in a cemetery just for this purpose. By the end of the Late Period ( 343 BCE ), there were corn mummy cemeteries all over Egypt."

Inflected Forms

corn mummies (plural) corn-mummy (alternative)

Questions

What does corn mummy mean?: An Ancient Egyptian sculpture of Osiris, often made of wax or earth, that contained germinated grain seeds (commonly wheat or barley).

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