English word senses marked with lifeform category "Maize (food)"

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Total 68 word senses

• Indian (Noun) Short for Mardi Gras Indian.
• asham (Noun) A dessert made from shelled and parched corn pounded into powder.
• ashcake (Noun) A johnnycake.
• atole (Noun) A sweetened thick drink or thin gruel made from cornmeal, served hot.
• baby corn (Noun) Young ears of maize/corn, especially those immature enough to be eaten whole as a vegetable.
• cobette (Noun) A small portion of corn on the cob, less than the whole ear.
• corn chip (Noun) A snack food made from cornmeal fried in oil or baked, usually in the shape of a small noodle or scoop.
• corn dog (Noun) A hot dog coated in cornbread batter and deep-fried in hot oil.
• corn liquor (Noun) A distilled spirit, derived from maize, having a high alcohol content and little flavor.
• corn oil (Noun) A light oil ground from corn, used for cooking as well as for fuel.
• corn on the cob (Noun) Cooked ears of corn (maize, specifically sweet corn).
• corn oyster (Noun) A fritter containing grated green Indian corn and butter, supposed to taste like oysters.
• corn pudding (Noun) A creamy food made chiefly from stewed corn.
• corn roast (Noun) An outdoor celebration in which corn is cooked on open fires.
• corn salad (Noun) Any of the small plants in genus Valerianella, used in salads and as a herb, especially Valerianella locusta.
• corn sugar (Noun) A deceptive term for high fructose corn syrup developed by corn refiners meant to imply sugar.
• corn syrup (Noun) A sticky sweet liquid, consisting of sugars dissolved in water, produced from corn (maize). Used as a sweetener in cooking, especially in commercial kitchens but also in candy making.
• corn whiskey (Noun) A whiskey distilled from a mash made up of not less than 80% corn (maize).
• corn-dodger (Noun) A cake made of the meal of Indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers.
• cornball (Noun) A ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar.
• cornball (Noun) An unsophisticated person.
• cornball (Noun) A corny person; an uncool, stupid, or lame person.
• cornbread (Noun) Bread made from cornmeal.
• corncake (Noun) Synonym of cornpone.
• cornflake (Noun) A toasted flake of maize used as breakfast cereal.
• cornflour (Noun) A very fine starch powder derived from maize (US corn) used in cooking as a thickener, to keep things from sticking, or as an anti-caking agent.
• cornflour (Noun) A flour for baking and cooking that is ground from maize (US corn).
• cornmeal (Noun) Dried corn (maize) milled (ground) to a coarse meal.
• cornpone (Noun) A form of cornbread made without milk or eggs.
• cornstarch (Noun) A very fine starch powder derived from corn (maize) used in cooking as a thickener, to keep things from sticking, or as an anti-caking agent.
• cornstick (Noun) corn on the cob
• creamed corn (Noun) A food consisting of cooked, partially pureed, sweet corn.
• glucose-fructose syrup (Noun) High fructose corn syrup.
• glucose/fructose (Noun) High fructose corn syrup.
• grits (Noun) Coarsely ground hominy which is boiled and eaten, primarily in the Southern United States.
• high fructose corn syrup (Noun) A type of corn syrup that has undergone an enzymatic processing to convert some of its glucose into fructose in order to produce a desired sweetness.
• high-fructose maize syrup (Noun) High fructose corn syrup.
• hoecake (Noun) A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made with water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe; in modern times, it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet.
• hominy (Noun) A food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits.
• humita (Noun) A traditional food of South America, consisting of masa harina dough and corn slowly cooked in oil.
• hushpuppy (Noun) A small deep-fried cornmeal cake.
• johnny cake (Noun) Alternative form of johnnycake (“type of basic cornbread”)
• johnnycake (Noun) A dense, baked or fried flatbread made of cornmeal.
• kernel corn (Noun) Kernels of maize, either frozen or canned
• kettle corn (Noun) A sweet and salty variety of popcorn with the addition of granulated sugar, salt, and oil.
• maize syrup (Noun) High fructose corn syrup.
• maizemeal (Noun) maize meal (coarse flour)
• maizena (Noun) Cornflour, cornstarch.
• mamaliga (Noun) A maize porridge originating in Romania.
• masa (Noun) Maize dough made from freshly prepared hominy, used for making tortillas, tamales, etc.
• mazamorra (Noun) A traditional maize-based pudding or drink of Latin America.
• nixtamal (Noun) Hominy; maize kernels which have undergone nixtamalization, that is, hulling and soaking and cooking in an alkaline solution.
• nixtamalization (Noun) A process for the preparation of maize (corn) in which the grain is soaked and cooked in an alkaline solution, usually limewater, and hulled.
• nocake (Noun) Indian corn parched and pounded into meal (powder), used as food by Native Americans, sometimes mixed with maple sugar.
• pinole (Noun) A coarse flour made from ground toasted maize kernels, often mixed with herbs, which may be eaten by itself or incorporated into drinks.
• polenta (Noun) Any of various types and consistencies of a starchy accompaniment to a meal made from coarse maize-meal porridge, sometimes fried or grilled.
• pone (Noun) A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs.
• posho (Noun) A food product made of cornmeal.
• pozole (Noun) A traditional Mexican soup, made from hominy, pork, chilli and other ingredients.
• puffcorn (Noun) A corn snack, visually similar to popcorn, but made with corn meal and baked.
• pupusa (Noun) A thick, hand-rolled maize tortilla.
• roastnear (Noun) An ear of corn or corn on the cob.
• sagamité (Noun) Hulled Indian corn, or a stew made of this.
• samp (Noun) An article of food consisting of coarse ground maize, or a porridge made from it.
• sour corn (Noun) Lactofermented pickled corn, a dish eaten in the Southern United States, especially in Appalachia.
• spoonbread (Noun) Bread made from corn and eggs, of a soft consistency such that it is served with a spoon.
• tamale (Noun) A Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.
• yokeag (Noun) Synonym of nocake

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