Actually, define cornaptious and I win a hundred dollars. ;)

I have a deal with my uncle...if I can find the definition of cornaptious, and then find the sentence it is used in(he'll give me hints) I win a hundred dollars. Or it could be cornapcious...

So...help! :D Pleeeeeeeease. I already checked webster.com.

You give two different spellings. Are you sure of either? Could the word have been cornaceous, belonging to the biological order of Cornaceae? It's the only one I can think of. I'll check later, when I'm home, and have access to the Oxford English Dictionary.

As for $100, assuming I'm right, donate it to the American Lung Association, or your national, regional or local equivalent.

<font color=lightgreen>Couldnt find it at dictionary.com... cant find my dictionary... so, i cant help you :( </font>

Are you sure your uncle isn't playing a prank on you with a non-excisting word? $100 seems a lot to risk.

cornaptious- one who is apt at eating corn. Example- Chuck doesnt like his vegetable but is voraciously cornaptious, eating it by the bushel. Hope that helps, can we split the hundred? :D

Hold on, hold on...
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Are you sure it's cornaptious?? That isn't a word IIRC.
Could it be one of the following:

(Someone might have already said this one..
Cornaceae- A tree family, for example, ythe cornel tree of the genus cornus?

Coriaceous-
1) Resembling leather, leathery
2) Made of leather ?
(Comes from Corium- 1) the true skin, under the epidermis or 2) leather armour.)

Cornemuse- A French bagpipe (strange I know :D )

Cornigerous- Horned

Cornucopia- The horn of plenty, in one fable being the horn of the goat that suckled Jupiter, sometimes an ornament of a horn overflowing with fruits, but now it's often used to mean an abundant supply or stock.

Sorry, that's all I can think of right now.. maybe it's some old or american slang word I've never heard of.

Oh, come on you guys. Corntraption is a variant of "contraption", an Americanism meaning "invention or gadget of vaguely spurious or doubtful value or usage." Hope you win, Lioness.

http://www.dabros.net/images/deathkiller/racast.jpgwell, considering that it's you're uncle who knows the word it probably does mean someone who is apt in the area of consuming corn....

*spins it around and eats it like a typewriter except in one large sweep on the upper jaw*

And they said that corn was for popin'!

Okay, I looked up "cornacious" in my old-fashioned OED and it has no listing either in the main text or in the Supplement. Going to try to find my Dictionary of American Slang.