maize English

Meaning maize meaning

What does maize mean?

Definitions in simple English

maize Noun

— Maize is a kind of grain, usually with large yellow seeds, that is often eaten (also called corn). We will be eating maize tomorrow.

— The plant corn grows on. We planted some maize in out garden last year.

maize

— noun (= corn) 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

— noun (= gamboge) a strong yellow color

Synonyms maize synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as maize?

maize English » English

corn

Indian corn

mealies

sweet corn

wheat

lemon yellow

grain

Zea mays

maise

lemon

gamboge

sweetcorn

small seed

seed

popcorn

pigeon pea

mays

maize kernel

indian corn

grain of maize

grain maize

gamborge

cereal

Zea moys

Topics maize topics

What do people use maize to talk about?

Universe, creation Plant

Grass, herb, vine

• What types of grass are there?
  alfalfa bamboo barley bluegrass buckwheat bulrush burmuda grass cane cereal clover corn crabgrass elephant grass foxtail grass horsetail knotgrass lemongrass maize millet oat reed rye sesame shortgrass sorghum speargrass sugarcane weed wheat

Daily life Food Types of food Food from plants

Food from seeds

• What types of grain are eaten?
  rice wheat corn maize barley sesame millet sorghum oat

Work and occupation Agriculture Process harvest

Mill grain

• What crops are milled?
  rice wheat maize

Work and occupation Agriculture

Process harvest

• What words refer to processing the harvest?
  process harvest shell groundnuts shell beans remove beans from pods husk corn remove leaves from maize cob remove maize from the cob dry separate bad from good

Work and occupation Agriculture

Harvest

• What special words are used for harvesting each crop?
  harvest maize harvest rice harvest yams harvest beans pick fruit pluck an apple dig potatoes pull carrots cut vegetables

Examples maize examples

How do I use maize in a sentence?

Simple sentences

France has banned a strain of genetically modified maize.

Movie subtitles

Popped maize.

Get your fresh Indian popped maize, tuppence a poke.

Popped maize. Here we are. It's buttered, it's fresh.

Popped maize, Master Wooley?

All these bags of maize inside the perimeter.

They come each year for the maize and Brussels sprouts which they love, and they're usually quite well-behaved.

Be careful not get any husks into the maize.

The maize should be weighed today.

They're made of maize leaves.

A day for maize, the Native American word for corn, a terrific turkey dinner, and brotherhood!

But we cross the field without trempling the maize.

They're now treating as murder. the death of a suspected Loyalist terrorist inside the Maize prison.

And then they make animated specials with the maize and the big, big belt buckles.

Black maize, an old robust variety, once a staple of native Americans.

We've diverted the upper stream to irrigate the bottom land, planted corn, maize.

Looks like a miracle, Ulzana! Maize, melons - all harvested in the desert!

These are maize pies with nuts.

A weekly wagon of meat and maize flour.

Maize pies with nuts? Or juniper cakes?

We have problems with maize paper. - Bad?

Did he smoke maize cigarettes?

Rice, maize, wheat. wheat. barley?

It's rice, barley, potato, wheat and maize.

Yes, maize.

I call it maize.

A maze of maize.

You know, I actually have a poultice I make, using maize and herbs.

Maize is corn, everybody.

Yeah, he says maize because it sounds more mystical.

But they pay with maize.

It's nice to put maize on your arrow wound.

And you are my one-footed maize-covered lover.

Drink your maize.

The local honey tastes like tamarind and maize.

And, secondly, when you're running on maize it's not what you'd call economical.

We could grow watermelons, maize, cotton.

News and current affairs

Research to identify alternative energy sources to stop the conversion of maize, soybeans, oil palm, and other foods to bio-fuel should become another high priority.

In Ghana, a new instant maize-based product, enriched with vitamins and minerals, is the first of its kind on the market, owing to its affordability and natural integration with breastfeeding.

The result is a grain yield (for example, maize) that is roughly one-third less than what could be achieved with better farm inputs.

Similarly, in Nairobi, Miringo Kinyanjui, another woman entrepreneur, is supplying unrefined - and more nutritious - maize and wheat flour.

NEW YORK - Many poor, food-importing countries around the world have become desperate in recent months, as global prices of rice, wheat, and maize have doubled.

Under traditional agricultural conditions, the yields of grain - rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, or millet - are usually around one ton per hectare, for one planting season per year.

Maize plants have withered, hitting poor rural families hard.

There is hope: next year, the Kenyan authorities will begin testing maize varieties that they hope will provide high yields and prove more resistant to drought.

The fact that virtually all US maize and soybean farmers, and all papaya farmers, use GM seed indicates that it is good business for them.

Oil pressed from rapeseed can be used as diesel fuel, and maize or sugar beets can yield ethanol to replace gasoline.

The price of maize, half of which is imported from the US, more than doubled in a year, primarily because of production of bio-ethanol.

Mexico tried to solve the problem by imposing a state-administered price ceiling for maize tortillas, combined with duty-free maize imports.

The substitution of forests by maize, rape, and other oilseed cultivation reduces the stock of biomass and likewise leads to an increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.

This is why Indonesia, one of the world's largest producers of rice and maize, recently decided to reduce trade barriers to agriculture imports.