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kukuruz

kukuruz noun: maize.

Noun

kukuruz (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Maize.
    • Here is grown some kukuruz, there stands a walnut-tree, yonder a whole thicket of elder, and there a thorn hedge, inclosing what looks something like a kitchen-garden, and all wearing an aspect of decay and neglect. […] What was his breakfast?—a raw head of kukuruz:—his dinner?—grapes, so unripe...1845, Ida, Countess Hahn-Hahn, anonymous translator, “Letter IV. To My Sister.”, in Letters of a German Countess; Written During Her Travels in Turkey, Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, Nubia, &c. in...
    • A boundless extent of pasturage, now and then diversified by a broken frame over a well, or a few storks that promenade round a half dried up swamp; bad fields, whose crops of kukuruz and wheat are protected by God only, and by that degree of bodily fatigue to which even a thief is...1850, [József] Eötvös, translated by Otto Wenckstern, chapter I, in The Village Notary; a Romance of Hungarian Life. […], volume I, London: […] Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC, page 2

Examples of kukuruz in a sentence

  • The hot kukuruz with cold milk was excellent, and we told Leopold to offer our visitors some.1912, Lion Phillimore, In the Carpathians, London: Constable & Company Limited, →OCLC, page 253:
  • No, I shall tell him I have done it; but the apple tree by the kukuruz bed is better, that will I graft and not the other!1928, Phyllis Bottome, “Michel”, in Strange Fruit: Stories, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; […], →OCLC, part I...
  • The kukuruz and peppers strung across artfully darkened beams had languidly swayed in the warm air that rose from the open charcoal grill.1968, William Fennerton, chapter 8, section 5, in The Lucifer Cell, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, pages 282–283:

Origin of kukuruz

Borrowed from Austrian German Kukuruz.

Questions about kukuruz

What does kukuruz mean?
Kukuruz means maize.
How do you use kukuruz in a sentence?
The hot kukuruz with cold milk was excellent, and we told Leopold to offer our visitors some.
What part of speech is kukuruz?
Kukuruz is a noun.

Words near kukuruz in the dictionary

  1. kukurai
  2. kukurais
  3. kukuri
  4. kukuris
  5. Kukuruku
  6. kukuruz
  7. kukus
  8. Kukës
  9. kula
  10. Kula Norinska
  11. Kulaal

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