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• Coarsely milled maize is termed cornmeal, but when finely milled and sifted it is called corn flour.From the entry milled
• Most farmers in this region cultivate maize.From the entry cultivate
• I love how sweet maize syrup is.From the entry maize syrup
• Maize is a crop that tassels.From the entry tassel
• A higher Cd concentration was found in tomato and pakchoi than in cabbage and maize.2019, “Agronomic Management for Cadmium Stress Mitigation”, in Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad, and Kamrun Nahar, editor…. From the entry companion planting
• I have cut maize stalks or green plants with which he means to choke the flames.1998, Nuruddin Farah, chapter 3, in Secrets, Penguin, published 1999, page 67. From the entry choke
• By crossing the wild and cultivated maizes, researchers created resistant varieties, saving thousands of farmers from ruin.1997 August 22, Charles Mann, “BOTANY: Cashing in on Seed Banks' Novel Genes”, in Science, volume 277, number 5329, →DOI. From the entry maizes
• The vast rippling fields of maize and tobacco between Rusapi and Marandellas no longer impressed me.1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 296. From the entry Marandellas
• Then came the battle with the rooks, who will do anything for a crawful of maize.1960, John William Robertson Scott, The Countryman - Volume 57, page 309. From the entry crawful
• In bluette, white, red, wine, maize, royal blue, green, brown, navy.1948 February 28, New Castle Store, “Boys’ and Girls’ Anklets”, in New Castle News, 67th year, number 44, New Castle, Pa., →OCLC, page 18. From the entry bluette
• Traffic is brisk, and goods consists of rice, gunny (hessian), maize and native implements.1946 September and October, “Notes and News: Light Railways in India”, in Railway Magazine, page 316. From the entry gunny
• They cleared a maize plantation by the aid of magical tools and otherwise distinguished themselves thaumaturgically.1930, Lewis Spence, Magic and Mysteries of Mexico. From the entry thaumaturgically
• Of other fodder crops the kales, cabbages, silver-beets, soya beans, and maizes have received attention.1914, The Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce, 1913, Wellington: […] John Mackay, […], →OCLC, page 55. From the entry silver-beet
• More maize is being grown and diverted to ethanol distillation.2026 July 13, Yogendra Pratap, “The ethanol dilemma! Accelerated ethanol-blend rollout leaves 200 million consumers in the lurch”, in…. From the entry foodgrain
• We were presently in the maize country.2019, C. W. Bryde, From Chart House to Bush Hut, page 64. From the entry cob
• Most maize consumed worldwide is fresh or immature (green) whole grain maize on the cob, popmaize (popcorn), and maize bread.2016 December 15, “Maize (Corn)”, in Barbara Elvers, editor, Ullmann’s Food and Feed, 3 Volume Set, Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, published 19 June…. From the entry popmaize
• We walk past a group of women and children gathered around an open fire, roasting maize on the cob.2016 May 18, Neema Komba, “The Search for Magical Mbuji”, in Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, editor, Safe House: Explorations in Creative…. From the entry maize on the cob
• The residents mainly cultivate food crops (maize, rice, sweet potatoes and beans) and cash crops (tobacco, groundnuts, simsim and sunflower).2015 August 8, Justine A. Assenga et al., “Epidemiology of Brucella infection in the human, livestock and wildlife interface in the…. From the entry simsim
• We had stopped in a newly ploughed mealie (maize) field, out in the open, sticking out like dog's balls.2014, Andrew Balaam, Bush War Operator, page 52. From the entry stick out like dog's balls
• However, as with maize, the sorghum pericarp is often referred to as a “hull” and is generally removed during processing.2009, Stanley P. Cauvain, Linda S. Young, The ICC Handbook of Cereals, Flour, Dough & Product Testing: Methods and Applications, DEStech…. From the entry pericarp
• Maize streak virus, an endemic pathogen of native African grasses, was then carried to maize plants by viruliferous leafhoppers.2007 July 10, “Resistant variety of maize giving some hope”, in The Hindu, retrieved 06 Mar 2013. From the entry viruliferous
• Most meals also include ugali, a maize (corn) meal, and sukuma wiki, a meal made from a kalelike leaf.2003, Catherine Broberg, Kenya in Pictures, page 56. From the entry kalelike
• Contrast of first and most recent regenerations of USDA Hopi kokoma and blue maize varieties conserved ex situ.1999, Virginia D. Nazarea, Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/located Lives, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry kokama
• P. maydis, responsible tor the maize tar spot, is one of the few species that can cause severe leaf damage.1990, R. S. Mehrotra, An Introduction to Mycology, page 335. From the entry tar spot
• Well dried tiny fish (omena) can be mixed with grain such as maize or millet and milled into flour.1988, Ruth K. Oniang'o, Feeding the Child, page 99. From the entry omena
• Selection favoring recessives is common in maize breeding for several traits, such as sweetness, opacity, brachysm, lack of ligules.1988, Arnel R. Hallauer, Marcelo J. Carena, J.B. Miranda Filho, 6: Selection: Theory, 2nd edition, page 234. From the entry recessive
• Maize and wintersome both yield large quantities of material which may be easily stored in the form of silage.1941, Rhodesia Agricultural Journal, page 255. From the entry wintersome
• I found that we had nearly a hundred bushels of corn, including wheat, maize, and barley, to add to our store.1909, Johann David Wyss (Susannah Mary Paull, translator), The Swiss Family Robinson, page 462. From the entry corn
• It is called “maizypop” because the Londoners call what we term corn maize and refuse to call it anything else.[1905 May 2, “Another Invasion”, in Duluth News Tribune, Duluth, Minn.: Duluth News Tribune Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 2. From the entry popmaize
• For example, a pandemic of afflation in maize in a given country may lead to the imposition of an import ban by potential patrons.2020, Youssef M. Hamada, Agribusiness as the Future of Agriculture, page 196. From the entry afflation
• In general, nixtamalization of 50 kg of maize grain requires about 75 L of water and generates almost the same amount of nejayote.2019, Rita Paz-Samaniego et al., “Nixtamalized Maize Flour By-product as a Source of Health-Promoting Ferulated Arabinoxylans (AX)”, in…. From the entry nejayote
• Instead of eating at fancy banquets with the president, we were drinking tea and eating ugali and sukumawiki,” or maize flour and greens.2015 July 26, Peter Baker, “Obama Delivers Tough-Love Message to End Kenya Trip”, in New York Times. From the entry sukumawiki
• The brachiaria is made to germinate and emerge later than the maize, either by delaying its planting or by planting it deeper.2011, Advances in Agronomy, volume 91, page 88. From the entry brachiaria
• Locals would speak sorrowfully about the state of affairs, often while nursing their sole plate of sadza (maize porridge) for the day.2007 February 16, “Zimbabwe’s Slide (1 Letter)”, in New York Times. From the entry sadza
• A combination of the 'agroinfection' maize streak construct and their sub-floral injection technique might enable one to take the transformation to seed.1988, CIBA Foundation Symposium, Plant Resistance to Viruses, →ISBN, page 193. From the entry sub-floral
• Nixtamalization, a traditional Mexican process for making tortillas, consists of cooking maize grain in excess water and lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)₂), at temperatures near boiling, followed by steeping.2014, John F. Leslie, Antonio Logrieco, editors, Mycotoxin Reduction in Grain Chains, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 124. From the entry nixtamalization
• The namesake maize de cantina, one of the starters, is a big, sweet ear of local corn dripping with chipotle butter and glazed with melted cotija cheese.2009 August 30, Joanne Starkey, “Latin Flavors That Fuse Tradition and Innovation”, in New York Times. From the entry cotija
• Milpa is based on seed crops, particularly the uniquely productive combination of maize, beans and squash, and in the past its techniques were normally those of swidden cultivation.2007, Peter John Ucko, G. W. Dimbleby, The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry milpa
• At least on the north side this provided ample roofed household activity area and was used for eating maize on the cob just before the eruption struck.1992, Payson Sheets, “Structure 7, The Bodega”, in The Ceren Site: A Prehistoric Village Buried by Volcanic Ash in Central America, Fort…. From the entry maize on the cob

Meaning of maize

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

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How do you use maize in a sentence?

Maize is used as a noun. For example: “Coarsely milled maize is termed cornmeal, but when finely milled and sifted it is called corn flour.”

What is a short sentence with maize?

“Maize is a crop that tassels.”

What does maize mean?

Maize means corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.