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ZEA MAYS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 ("Zea mays" 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 "Zea mays"):
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 "Zea mays"):
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 ("Zea mays" is a member of...):
genus Zea; Zea (corn)
