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Maize

//meɪz// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A female given name.
  3. 3
    A male given name.
Noun
  1. 1
    Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays. countable, uncountable

    "But alass! these, when they had maize (yt is, Indean corne) they thought it as good as a feast, and wanted not only for 5. days togeather, but some time 2. or 3. months togeather, and neither had bread nor any kind of corne."

  2. 2
    a strong yellow color wordnet
  3. 3
    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 wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish maíz, from Taíno *mahis, *mahisi, from Proto-Arawak *marikɨ. Cognate with Lokono marisi, Wayuu maiki.

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