Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A light yellow to moderate orange yellow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cereal plant, Zea Mays, of the grass family; the Indian corn.
- noun The grain produced by the maize: Indian Corn.
- noun A coal-tar color, the sodium salt of the disulphonic acid of azoxy-stilbene. It dyes silk and wool reddish-yellow in an acid bath. Also called
sun-yellow .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A large species of American grass of the genus Zea (
Zea Mays ), widely cultivated as a forage and food plant; Indian corn, commonly calledcorn . Also, its seed, growing on cobs, and used as food for men and animals. - noun (Zoöl.) a South American bird of the genus Pseudoleistes, allied to the troupials.
- noun a delicate pale yellow.
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- noun
Corn ; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a strong yellow color
- noun tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The mills are all controlled by the Government and all flour is now war grade, which means it is made of about 70 per cent white flour and other grains, rye, corn (which we call maize), barley, rice-flour, etc., are added.
Women and War Work Helen Fraser
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Of the birds, there is a kind like starlings, which we call maize thieves, because they do so much damage to the maize.
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The vine and the olive, and the orange flourish, they say, out there; and that corn which they call maize, with its golden head, so rich and prolific; and there are deer in the woods, and quail innumerable, and fish in the rivers and in the sea which washes its coasts.
John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The maize is thought of as having a nature or "essence" of its own, like that of a human being.
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Kristof complains that maize is not well suited to Malawi because it is susceptible to pests and disease.
Danielle Nierenberg: Don't Sweep Away Crop Diversity Danielle Nierenberg 2010
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Kristof complains that maize is not well suited to Malawi because it is susceptible to pests and disease.
Danielle Nierenberg: Don't Sweep Away Crop Diversity Danielle Nierenberg 2010
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The maize is thought of as having a nature or "essence" of its own, like that of a human being.
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To one side is revealed an immense spread of water with its islands and rock-covered shores, white villages, fishermen's huts, the prison building, haciendas, fertile shores covered in maize and chickpea fields, large herds of cattle grazing on the plains, streams shaded by willows and Cinerarias and the snow-capped summit of Colima volcano, which stands out from the mountain range to the SSW.
Did you know? The first scientific account of Lake Chapala comes from 1839 2009
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Kristof complains that maize is not well suited to Malawi because it is susceptible to pests and disease.
Danielle Nierenberg: Don't Sweep Away Crop Diversity Danielle Nierenberg 2010
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Kristof complains that maize is not well suited to Malawi because it is susceptible to pests and disease.
Danielle Nierenberg: Don't Sweep Away Crop Diversity Danielle Nierenberg 2010
pterodactyl commented on the word maize
Q. How much does it cost to buy corn from a pirate?
A. A buck an ear.
September 26, 2008
reesetee commented on the word maize
Haha! That reminds me of one of my Dad's jokes, which ends with someone asking a pirate, "Where are your buccaneers?"
"Under me buckin' hat," he replies.
;->
September 26, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word maize
Cf. muffinhood.
August 15, 2010