zea mays
English Thesaurus
1. 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 (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | cereal, cereal grass, |
| definition | : | grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | field corn, |
| definition | : | corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | popcorn, zea mays everta, |
| definition | : | corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat (noun.plant) |
| part holonym | : | corn, edible corn, |
| definition | : | ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food (noun.food) |
| part holonym | : | corn cob, corncob, |
| definition | : | the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | capitulum, ear, spike, |
| definition | : | fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn (noun.plant) |
| derivation | : | corn, |
| definition | : | feed (cattle) with corn (verb.consumption) |
| derivation | : | corn, |
| definition | : | feed (cattle) with corn (verb.consumption) |
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