Synonyms for maize
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WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.8 / 6 votes

1. maizenoun

   corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays

   Synonyms:
   Indian corn, corn, sweet corn, green corn, sugar corn

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. corn, maize, Indian corn, Zea maysnoun

   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:
   edible corn, corn whiskey, lemon, corn, corn whisky, clavus, lemon yellow, gamboge

2. gamboge, lemon, lemon yellow, maizenoun

   a strong yellow color

   Synonyms:
   gamboge, lemon, stinker, lemon yellow, corn, lemon tree

Matched Categories

1. • Cereal Grass
   • Yellow

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. maizenoun

   Synonyms:
   indian corn (zea mays)

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "maize":

   corn, maïs, but-, cornfield

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1. Maneo Motsamai:

   I boil water to cook mealie meal (maize porridge) and the power goes. I can’t eat, it’s a waste. I can’t cope like that.

2. Jurie Mentz:

   Most of the guys in the project used to grow maize for household consumption. Now they are making money as well.

3. Obert Gutu:

   ZANU-PF should be utterly ashamed of hosting an expensive birthday bash for their aging ruler whilst more than 90 percent of Zimbabweans are wallowing in grinding poverty caused by decades of Robert Mugabe's misrule and mismanagement of the economy, the money that is being budgeted for this ill-conceived birthday bash should actually be used to import maize to avert the impending starvation in Masvingo province and other parts of the country.

4. Senzeni Zokwana:

   Maize is one of our staple foods which our people depend upon so our department would approach other funding agencies.

5. Laurentiu Baciu:

   Romanian grain farmers will gladly embrace the genetically modified maize crops, it's common sense that any maize farmer, be it in Spain or in Portugal or in Romania, would like to reduce production costs and eventually reap a bigger harvest.