English noun: Zea mays |
1. | Zea mays (plant) 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 |
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| Synonyms | corn, Indian corn, maize |
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| Broader (hypernym) | cereal, cereal grass |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | field corn, green corn, popcorn, sugar corn, sweet corn, sweet corn plant, Zea mays everta, Zea mays rugosa, Zea saccharata |
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| Part holonym | capitulum, corn, corn cob, corn stalk, corncob, cornstalk, ear, edible corn, spike |
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| Member meronym | genus Zea, Zea |
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