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Preferred term

maize

Definition

  • [CRISP] any of numerous cultivated forms of a widely grown, usually tall annual cereal grass (Zea mays) bearing grains or kernels on large ears; the grains or kernels of this plant, used as food for humans and livestock or for the extraction of an edible oil or starch; also called Indian corn, maize.

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Creator

  • herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

In other languages

Chinese

  • 玉米

Japanese

  • トウモロコシ

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20681

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