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

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Total 26 word senses

• Guinea wheat (Noun) maize; Indian corn
• Indian corn (Noun) maize
• Indian wheat (Noun) Maize or Indian corn.
• Indian wheat (Noun) A plant of species Plantago ovata, a plantain that is a source of psyllium.
• Turkey wheat (Noun) maize; Indian corn
• blue corn (Noun) A variety of corn with dark bluish grains.
• corn (Noun) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
• dent (Noun) A slot or a wire in a reed
• field corn (Noun) Any variety of corn (maize) grown primarily for fodder; usually, one with lower sugar content than sweet corn and harvested either to be stored dry (on the cob or off, divorced of the stover) or ensiled along with the stover.
• flint (Noun) A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
• flint (Noun) A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
• flint (Noun) A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
• flint (Noun) A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
• frankencorn (Noun) Genetically modified corn.
• horsetooth (Noun) A type of maize with kernels shaped like a horse's tooth, especially dent maize or a subtype.
• kokama (Noun) A gemsbok.
• kokama (Noun) A variety of corn with purple kernels cultivated by the Hopi.
• kokama (Noun) A variety of grass Rottboellia cochinchinensis.
• maize (Noun) Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.
• mielie (Noun) Maize.
• popcorn (Noun) A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating.
• shoepeg corn (Noun) A cultivar of sweetcorn with small, narrow kernels, valued for its sweetness.
• sweet corn (Noun) Any of many varieties of corn (specifically maize) most suitable for eating by humans, as distinguished from corn raised as animal feed; usually with higher sugar content than field corn.
• tasselseed (Noun) A mutation of maize characterized by irregular branching in its inflorescences, tassels, and ears, in addition to feminization of the tassel
• white corn (Noun) Any of several varieties of sweet corn maize, typically sweeter and more suitable for bread-making than yellow corn.
• zean (Noun) A highly concentrated fluid extract of cornsilk used as a diuretic and urinary antiseptic.

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