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
   "The farmer planted several varieties of Zea mays in rotating fields";
   - corn, maize, Indian corn

Type of: cereal, cereal grass

Part of: genus Zea, Zea

Encyclopedia: Zea mays