Definition of zea mays Zea mays
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What does zea mays mean?
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| zea mays - 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 | ||
| corn, maize, Indian corn, Zea mays | ||
| cereal grass, cereal a breakfast food prepared from grain | ||
| genus zea, zea corn | ||
| edible corn, corn something sentimental or trite; "that movie was pure corn" | ||
| corn cob, corncob the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn | ||
| corn stalk, cornstalk the stalk of a corn plant | ||
| field corn corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain | ||
| sugar corn, sweet corn plant, zea mays rugosa, zea saccharata, green corn, sweet corn corn that can be eaten as a vegetable while still young and soft | ||
| zea mays everta, popcorn small kernels of corn exploded by heat | ||
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