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Vinony

maize

noun

  1. seed of Zea mays, used as a vegetable, ingredient, etc
  2. a tall annual cereal grass (Zea mays) originally domesticated in Mexico and widely grown for its large elongated ears of starchy seeds : corn
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /meɪz/ / [meːz]

name

  1. A surname, variant of Mayes.
  2. A unisex given name.

noun

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

  1. Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.

    “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.”

    “A fundamental creative act of American man was the development of maize. For it was maize that made possible and sustained the whole Peruvian civilization as well as Mexican and Central American ones. Exactly where it originated is not known, but corn was found in pre-Mayan graves dating to 3000 B.C.”