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Noun: Zea mays
  1. 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
    - corn, maize, Indian corn

Type of: cereal, cereal grass

Part of: genus Zea, Zea

Encyclopedia: Zea mays

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