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maize

/meyz/US // meɪz //UK // (meɪz) //

玉米,小麦,粟米,粱

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : corn.
    • : a pale yellow resembling the color of corn.

Examples

  • Maybe I would grow avocados and macadamia nuts, where he grew maize, because that gives me more money for the same piece of land.

  • The selling price the government sets for maize is still not very good, unfortunately.

  • With this hybrid, even when we have small rains, the maize is very good.

  • I’ve been a farmer for six years, mainly of maize, but also coffee and sweet potatoes.

  • As much as today’s sweet corn is an improvement over its maize ancestor, the supermarket shelves of tomorrow could be a vast advance beyond what we have today.

  • Duarte owns a small plot of land where she grazes cattle and grows beans, maize, bananas, and oranges.

  • The smells of roasting maize, diesel fumes, and floral soap from the streets of Harare are still seared into my brain.

  • The Spaniards since have substituted paper for the leaves of maize, in imitation of them.

  • They also use the papelotes wrapped in paper and sometimes in the dried leaf of maize.

  • The quantity necessary for each horse per day costs about eightpence, and his maize as much more.

  • I know not whether I have before mentioned, that a great quantity of maize is cultivated in this part of the kingdom.

  • Rice, maize and other grains are raised in large quantities; cotton and tobacco are cultivated.