maize
noun/meɪz/ · CA [meːz]
Etymology Borrowed from Spanish maíz, from Taíno *mahis, *mahisi, from Proto-Arawak *marikɨ. Cognate with Lokono marisi, Wayuu maiki.
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 corne.1623, William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation:
- 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 originated is not known, but corn was found in pre-Mayan graves dating to 3000 B.C.1972, Lytle Robinson, chapter 5, in Edgar Cayceʼs Story of the Origin and Destiny of Man, USA: Berkley Publishing Corporation, page 106:
- Synonyms
- corn, green corn, Indian corn, sugar corn, sweet corn
- Derived terms
- Hopi maize, long maize, maize-cream, maize dance, maizefield, maizeless, maizelike, maizemeal, maize mushroom, maize on the cob, maize syrup, maize weevil, maizy, nonmaize
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