Zea mays : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Zea mays	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Zea mays
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Zea mays n 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 Synonym(s): corn, maize, Indian corn, Zea mays
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Zea \[d8]Ze"a\ (z[emac]"[adot]), n. [L., a kind of grain, fr. Gr. ze`a, zeia`; cf. Skr. yava barley.] (Bot.) A genus of large grasses of which the Indian corn ({Zea Mays}) is the only species known. Its origin is not yet ascertained. See {Maize}.