maize

Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.

Noun

  1. Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.
    • But alass! these, when they had maize (yt is, Indean corne) they thought it as good as a feast, and wanted not only for 5. days togeather, but some time 2. or 3. months togeather, and neither had bread nor any kind of...
    • A fundamental creative act of American man was the development of maize. For it was maize that made possible and sustained the whole Peruvian civilization as well as Mexican and Central American ones. Exactly where it...

Origin

Borrowed from Spanish maíz, from Taíno *mahis, *mahisi, from Proto-Arawak *marikɨ. Cognate with Lokono marisi, Wayuu maiki.

Forms

maizes maiz

Synonyms

corn green corn Indian corn sugar corn sweet corn

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Derived

Hopi maize long maize maize-cream maize dance maizefield maizeless maizelike maizemeal maize mushroom maize on the cob maize syrup maize weevil maizy nonmaize