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Definitions: Maize |
MaizeNoun1. 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. 2. A strong yellow color. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "maize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Etymology: Maize \Maize\, noun. [from Spanish expression maiz. from mahiz or mahis, is the language of the Island of Hayti.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Food & Agriculture | A tall cereal grass(Zea mays)bearing kernels and typically large ears and long cultivated in America. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Maize (1 syl.). According to American superstition, if a damsel finds a blood-red ear of maize, she will have a suitor before the year is over. "Even the blood-red ear to Evangeline brought not her lover." Longfellow: Evangeline. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| ITIS 42268 2002-09-22 |
Maize, or corn, is a staple food grain from Mesoamerica of the genus Zea, especially Zea mays. Maize evolved from teosinite and was a domesticate of native Americans from the Balsas River Valley of southern Mexico. Zea mays has evolved from maize, with the term teosinite now used for other Zea species, particularly Zea luxurians.
There are regional variations in terminology. In North America, Zea mays is known as corn, while the other species are known as maize. In Australia, the term corn is often restricted to sweetcorn, with maize or field corn used for other varieties of Zea mays. In other English-speaking countries, the term corn is more general.
As a food, maize (Zea mays) is used in various forms. One hybridized variety, sweetcorn, is particularly popular.
Maize can also be prepared as hominy; grits, made from hominy, are commonly eaten in U.S. Southern States. Another common food made from maize are corn flakes. The flour of maize is used to make cornbread and Mexican tortillas. Teosinte is used as fodder.
The following sections are adapted from the Household Cyclopedia of 1881:
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)Growing maize
Harvesting maize
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In 1940, Barbara McClintock received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of the first transposons in maize.Maize, Kansas
Geography
Maize is located at 37°46'23" North, 97°28'0" West (37.772944, -97.466684)1.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.1 km² (0.8 mi²). 2.1 km² (0.8 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 1,868 people, 632 households, and 523 families residing in the city. The population density is 879.6/km² (2,274.9/mi²). There are 668 housing units at an average density of 314.5/km² (813.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 93.47% White, 0.96% African American, 1.23% Native American, 0.32% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.91% from other races, and 3.10% from two or more races. 2.62% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 632 households out of which 49.4% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.6% are married couples living together, 11.4% have a female householder with no husband present, and 17.2% are non-families. 15.7% of all households are made up of individuals and 6.0% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.96 and the average family size is 3.28.
In the city the population is spread out with 34.4% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 30.7% from 25 to 44, 19.9% from 45 to 64, and 7.1% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 30 years. For every 100 females there are 100.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 97.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city is $51,845, and the median income for a family is $53,365. Males have a median income of $41,653 versus $25,817 for females. The per capita income for the city is $18,803. 3.0% of the population and 1.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 4.4% are under the age of 18 and 1.4% are 65 or older.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Maize."
Synonyms: MaizeSynonyms: corn (n), gamboge (n), lemon (n), lemon yellow (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Maize |
| English words defined with "maize": Broom corn ♦ cereal, cereal grass, Chica, corn borer, Corn weevil ♦ flint maize ♦ Hulled corn ♦ Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian wheat ♦ Maize eater, Maize yellow, Mealies, milo maize, Monocarpous ♦ Pinole, Pyrausta nubilalis ♦ Samp, Sea corn, sweet corn ♦ Teosinte. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "maize": 67101 ♦ autonomously replicating sequence ♦ Black Mexican Sweet, Bt corn, Bt maize ♦ C4 plants, College Colours ♦ DNA Transposable Elements ♦ genetically engineered Bt corn ♦ maize grits, maize starch, maize starch GB ♦ phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase. (references) |
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Business | Maize is cultivated over nearly half of the arable land surface, and forms the backbone of the country's agricultural industry. (references) | |
The extent to which farmers would heed to the call to limit new maize cultivation for the 2000 summer season determined sales prospects for new machinery. (references) | ||
The short-term market for agricultural machinery is depressed, based on certain macro-economic factors (mainly the current oversupply in the maize market). (references) | ||
Economic History | Burkina Faso | Staple crops are millet, sorghum, maize, and rice. (references) |
Democratic Republic of Congo | Food crops include cassava, plantains, maize, groundnuts, and rice. (references) | |
Kenya | The crop production deficit prompted the importation of massive amounts of maize. (references) | |
Human Rights | Uganda | Most of the prisons grew maize, millet, and vegetables, although the UHRC accused prison farms of overworking inmates. (references) |
Political Economy | INDIA | The main canalized items currently are petroleum products, some pharmaceutical products, and bulk grains (wheat, rice, and maize). (references) |
Trade | India | Imports of products such as wheat, rice, maize, petrol, diesel, aviation turbine fuel (ATF) and urea are permitted only through designated State Trading Enterprises. (references) |
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| "Maize" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Maize" is used about 330 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 330 | 15,812 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "maize" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Maize | Last name | 1,000 | 17,671 |
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| Pakistan | Rafhan Maize Products Co Ltd |
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1. Maize, KS (city, FIPS 44200) |
Expressions using "maize": Bt maize ♦ coarsely ground maize ♦ flint maize ♦ Maize eater ♦ maize field ♦ maize floor ♦ maize flour ♦ maize grits ♦ maize plantation ♦ maize starch ♦ maize starch GB ♦ Maize yellow ♦ milo maize. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "maize": maize-based, maize-cob, maize-coloured, maize-fed, maize-growing, maize-stalks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
maize | 107 |
maize ks | 18 |
corn maize | 11 |
maize raven | 11 |
maze maize | 10 |
maize kansas | 8 |
maize high school | 7 |
daisy maize | 4 |
maize picture | 4 |
color maize | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "maize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | mielies (corn, Indian, Indian corn, mealies). (various references) | |
Albanian | misër (corn, indian corn). (various references) | |
Arabic | الذرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | царевица (corn, indian corn, turkey-corn), жълт цвят (saffron, yellow). (various references) | |
Chinese | 玉米 (corn). (various references) | |
Czech | kukuřice (corn, indian corn). (various references) | |
Danish | majs (corn, Indian corn, Mais, mealies). (various references) | |
Dutch | mais (corn, Indian corn, mealies), maïs (corn, indian corn, Mais, mealies). (various references) | |
Esperanto | maizo (corn, Indian corn, mealies). (various references) | |
Faeroese | mais (corn, Indian corn, mealies). (various references) | |
Finnish | maissi (corn, indian corn, mealies). (various references) | |
French | maïs (Mais). (various references) | |
German | Mais (corn, indian corn, Mais, mealies). (various references) | |
Greek | αραποσίτι (corn, flint corn, flint maize, indian corn). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תירס (corn, indian corn), "ור" (corn, mealie, sorghum). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kukorica (corn, Indian corn, mealies, turkey corn, turkey wheat, Turkish wheat). (various references) | |
Icelandic | maís (corn, Indian corn, mealies). (various references) | |
Italian | granturco (corn, Indian, Indian corn, mealies), mais (corn, indian corn, sweet corn), granoturco (corn, indian corn, Mais). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 玉蜀黍 (corn). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | とうもろ"し (corn). (various references) | |
Korean | 옥수수 (Corn). (various references) | |
Manx | grine buigh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | mais (corn, Indian corn, mealies). (various references) | |
Papiamen | mainshi (corn, Indian corn, mealies). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aizemay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | milho (corn, corn meal, indian corn, indian ink, maize plantation, mealies). (various references) | |
Romanian | porumb (corn, indian corn, pigeon), pãpuşoi. (various references) | |
Russian | кукуруза (corn, Indian corn), маис (corn, Indian corn, mealies). (various references) | |
Sepedi | mafela. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kukuruz (corn, indian corn). (various references) | |
Shona | chibage. (various references) | |
Spanish | maíz (corn, Indian corn, Mais, mealies). (various references) | |
Sranan | karu (corn, Indian corn, mealies). (various references) | |
Swahili | muhindi (corn, Indian corn, mealies). (various references) | |
Swazi | úm-bîla. (various references) | |
Swedish | majs (corn, indian corn, mealies). (various references) | |
Turkish | misir (corn, Egypt, Indian corn, mealies), mısır (corn, corny, Egypt, indian corn, sweet corn), dari (corn, Indian corn, mealies), darı (millet). (various references) | |
Ukranian | кукурудза (corn), маїс. (various references) | |
Yucatec | xi'im (corn, Indian corn, mealies). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Zea mays, Zea mays convar.saccharata, Zea mays var.saccharata, Zea rugosa. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "maize": maizes. (additional references) | |
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"Maize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aize, Aizik, Aizu, amaise, daize, Kailzee, Kazie, Maaike, Mabie, Macizo, madiz, madzi, Maese, maeze, magize, maice, maide, mailee, maime, maire, mais, maise, Maisel, maisug, maive, maiz, maiza, maized, maizes, Maizey, maiziere, Maizl, Maizon, maizy, malise, Maliza, Malizia, manza, Mariez, Masiye, mauie, mauz, mauze, mayse, mayze, mazeg, mazeh, Mazel, mazen, mazet, mazi, Mazie, mazu, meaze, Meazza, Meise, Meizer, menze, Mezine, mezio, miaz, minizen, Mirizzi, miz, miza, Mizieb, Mizo, Mizzi, mizzu, Moazzam, Moizer, Mojzer, muise, muize, muziek, naize, Naizet, nazie, paize, waize. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "maize" (pronounced mā"z) |
| 3 | m ā" z | amaze, dismays, Maes, Mays, maze. |
| 2 | -ā" z | ablaze, allays, appraise, arrays, baize, ballets, bays, berets, betrays, blase, blaze, bouquets, braise, cabernets, cafes, chaise, chalets, clays, cliches, communiques, conveys, craze, dais, days, daze, decays, defrays, delays, displays, dossiers, essays, faze, filets, gays, gaze, glaze, Grays, graze, Hays, haze, jays, Kays, lase, lays, leis, leys, Lyonnaise, malaise, morays, nays, obeys, okays, pays, phase, phrase, plays, polonaise, portrays, praise, prays, preys, raise, Rase, rays, raze, reappraise, repays, rephrase, replays, Res, shays, sprays, stays, strays, surveys, sways, todays, trays, urokinase, ways, weighs, yeas. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-z" | |
-1 letter: amie, maze. | |
-2 letters: aim, ami, mae. | |
-3 letters: ae, ai, am, em, ma, me, mi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-z" | |
+1 letter: maizes, mazier. | |
+2 letters: atomize, imblaze, maziest, mestiza. | |
+3 letters: amortize, atomized, atomizer, atomizes, azotemia, azotemic, diazepam, humanize, imblazed, imblazes, kamikaze, khazenim, magazine, maximize, mazaedia, mazelike, maziness, melanize, mestizas, metalize, metazoic, monazite, moralize, nizamate, racemize, romanize, simazine, womanize, zemindar. | |
+4 letters: alchemize, aluminize, amazonite, amortized, amortizes, anatomize, animalize, aromatize, atomizers, azotemias, bombazine, chazzenim, diazepams, dogmatize, dramatize, emblazing, empathize, emphasize, enzymatic, formalize, germanize, glamorize, harmonize, humanized, humanizer, humanizes, imidazole, kamikazes, magazines, magnetize, marbleize, martyrize, maximized, maximizer, maximizes, mazaedium, mechanize, melanized, melanizes, metalized, metalizes, metallize, mezzanine, monazites, moralized, moralizer, moralizes, mutualize, nizamates, normalize, racemized, racemizes, randomize, rheumatiz, romanized, romanizes, simazines, summarize, trapezium, womanized, womanizer, womanizes, zemindars, zemindary. | |
+5 letters: alchemized, alchemizes, aluminized, aluminizes, amazonites, anatomized, anatomizes, animalized, animalizes, aromatized, aromatizes, automatize, autotomize, axiomatize, bombazines, caramelize, chimpanzee, cinematize, decimalize, dehumanize, demoralize, dogmatized, dogmatizer, dogmatizes, dramatized, dramatizes, empathized, empathizes, emphasized, emphasizes, formalized, formalizer, formalizes, germanized, germanizes, glamorized, glamorizer, glamorizes, glamourize, gormandize, harmonized, harmonizer, harmonizes, humanizers, imidazoles, macadamize, magnetized, magnetizer, magnetizes, marbleized, marbleizes, martyrized, martyrizes, maximizers, mazinesses, mechanized, mechanizer, mechanizes, melanizing, metabolize, metalizing, metallized, metallizes, mezzanines, militarize, mineralize, mizzenmast, moralizers, musicalize, mutualized, mutualizes, normalized, normalizer, normalizes, polygamize, quizmaster, racemizing, randomized, randomizer, randomizes, rehumanize, schematize, schmalzier, shmaltzier, stigmatize, summarized, summarizer, summarizes, sympathize, thermalize, trapeziums, traumatize, womanizers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 69 7A 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .. --.. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101001 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a i z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0069 007A 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767759271 |
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