maizes

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A form of maize — Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.

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maizes1

noun
  1. pluralplural of maize

    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
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    If these maizes were two boys, not improbably the one would be caned for failing to respond to treatment so efficacious in the case of the other.

    1919, Various, Cambridge Essays on Education

    The first maize and one of the hybrid maizes are made jointly by Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a subsidiary of DuPont, and Mycogen Seeds, a unit of Dow AgroSciences, which is owned by Dow Chemical .

    2007 October 25, Reuters, “Approval for 4 Modified Crops”, in New York Times

Maizes2

proper noun
  1. pluralplural of Maize
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