horsetooth

H4O1R1S1E1T1O1O1T1H4

noun

A type of maize with kernels shaped like a horse's tooth, especially dent maize or a subtype.

RareScrabble 16

Meanings

nounhorsetooth (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA type of maize with kernels shaped like a horse's tooth, especially dent maize or a subtype.

    What determined the success of his business was[…]a seven-field crop rotation, with wheat, horsetooth maize, sunflower, clover, and sainfoin following each other and giving a bigger and better crop from year to year[…].

    1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 62
Cite this entry
APA

horsetooth. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/horsetooth

MLA

“horsetooth.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/horsetooth. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “horsetooth,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/horsetooth.

Source: horsetooth on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.