"semiflint" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1957, William H. Hatheway, Races of Maize in Cuba, page 28:",
          "text": "Although its influence is clearly visible in many Criollo semiflints collected in 1954, \"Maiz Gibara\" is not popular with the small farmer who grows corn for home consumption.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2005, James C McCann, Maize and Grace, page 84:",
          "text": "They include red flints and semiflints, red dents, purple, mixed yellow and white, and variegated colors.",
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        }
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        "Maize or corn that is a hybrid where one parent species is flint and the other has a soft outer hull."
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          "corn",
          "corn"
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          "hybrid"
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          "flint",
          "flint"
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          "soft",
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          "hull",
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          "ref": "1927, Bulletin - Volumes 36-48, page 266:",
          "text": "The calory- temperature curve for the flints and semiflints resembled one another very closely. The semiflints required a little greater heat to 1000°C.",
          "type": "quote"
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      "glosses": [
        "Clay that is hard rather than plastic but that lacks the conchoidal fracture pattern of flint."
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          "Clay",
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          "hard",
          "hard"
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          "plastic",
          "plastic"
        ],
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          "conchoidal",
          "conchoidal"
        ],
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          "fracture",
          "fracture"
        ],
        [
          "flint",
          "flint"
        ]
      ]
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          "ref": "1957, William H. Hatheway, Races of Maize in Cuba, page 28:",
          "text": "Although its influence is clearly visible in many Criollo semiflints collected in 1954, \"Maiz Gibara\" is not popular with the small farmer who grows corn for home consumption.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2005, James C McCann, Maize and Grace, page 84:",
          "text": "They include red flints and semiflints, red dents, purple, mixed yellow and white, and variegated colors.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Maize or corn that is a hybrid where one parent species is flint and the other has a soft outer hull."
      ],
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          "corn",
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          "hybrid"
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          "flint",
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          "soft",
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          "hull",
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          "text": "The calory- temperature curve for the flints and semiflints resembled one another very closely. The semiflints required a little greater heat to 1000°C.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Clay that is hard rather than plastic but that lacks the conchoidal fracture pattern of flint."
      ],
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