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MAIZE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A strong yellow color
Synonyms:
gamboge; lemon; lemon yellow; maize
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("maize" is a kind of...):
yellow; yellowness (yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
corn; Indian corn; maize; Zea mays
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("maize" is a kind of...):
cereal; cereal grass (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)
Meronyms (parts of "maize"):
corn; edible corn (ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food)
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)
capitulum; ear; spike (fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "maize"):
field corn (corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain)
green corn; sugar corn; sweet corn; sweet corn plant; Zea mays rugosa; Zea saccharata (a corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating)
popcorn; Zea mays everta (corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat)
Holonyms ("maize" is a member of...):
genus Zea; Zea (corn)
Context examples:
India grows a variety of coarse grains — including sorghum, pearl millet, maize, barley, and finger millet — as well as many ‘small millets’ such as kodo millet, little millet, foxtail millet, proso millet, and barnyard millet.
(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)
Maize, which we know as corn, was grown in the region as early as 2000 B.C.
(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)
Researchers have used mathematical modelling to develop techniques to combat two co-infecting viruses causing maize lethal necrosis (MLN) in Kenya.
(Researchers model ways to control deadly maize disease, SciDev.Net)
They found that maize, or corn, was the most susceptible to crop failure, with climate variability causing 18 per cent of growth volatility globally between 1980 and 2010.
(El Niño linked to widespread crop failures, SciDev.Net)
MLN usually arises from the interaction of two viruses: maize chlorotic mottle virus (MSMV) and sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV).
(Researchers model ways to control deadly maize disease, SciDev.Net)
During an El Niño phase, the eastern side of South America experiences extra rain and cloudiness, which leads to above-normal yields for maize and soybean but also an increased risk of diseases in wheat varieties.
(El Niño linked to widespread crop failures, SciDev.Net)
