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Zea mays

DEFINITIONS OF: Zea mays

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n 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

Synonyms:
Indian corn, corn, maize
Types:
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field corn
corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain
Zea mays rugosa, Zea saccharata, green corn, sugar corn, sweet corn, sweet corn plant
a corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating
Zea mays everta, popcorn
corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat
Zea mays indentata, dent corn
corn whose kernels contain both hard and soft starch and become indented at maturity
Yankee corn, Zea mays indurata, flint corn, flint maize
corn having kernels with a hard outer layer enclosing the soft endosperm
Zea mays amylacea, flour corn, soft corn, squaw corn
corn having kernels almost entirely of soft starch
Type of:
cereal, cereal grass
grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
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