Maize
noun
A type of grain that is typically yellow and grown as food.
The farmers are harvesting their maize crop.
Often appears as...
- maize crop
- maize field
noun
A light yellow color.
She wore a beautiful dress of maize color.
Often appears as...
- maize color
- maize colored dress
noun
A type of grain that is typically yellow and grown as food.
The farmers are harvesting their maize crop.
Often appears as...
- maize crop
- maize field
noun
A light yellow color.
She wore a beautiful dress of maize color.
Often appears as...
- maize color
- maize colored dress
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Global Staple
Maize is a staple food in many cultures, often referred to in different cuisines.
In Mexico, maize is used to make tortillas.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Yellow
Maize can be various colors, not just yellow; this reflects in different varieties.
Heirloom maize varieties come in blue and red as well.
Pro Tip 3/3Part of Expressions
The word 'maize' appears in idioms and expressions with agricultural or rural connotations.
As popular as corn in August, he was welcomed everywhere.
Pro Tip 1/3Global Staple
Maize is a staple food in many cultures, often referred to in different cuisines.
In Mexico, maize is used to make tortillas.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Yellow
Maize can be various colors, not just yellow; this reflects in different varieties.
Heirloom maize varieties come in blue and red as well.
Pro Tip 3/3Part of Expressions
The word 'maize' appears in idioms and expressions with agricultural or rural connotations.
As popular as corn in August, he was welcomed everywhere.
Pro Tip 1/3Global Staple
Maize is a staple food in many cultures, often referred to in different cuisines.
In Mexico, maize is used to make tortillas.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Yellow
Maize can be various colors, not just yellow; this reflects in different varieties.
Heirloom maize varieties come in blue and red as well.
Pro Tip 3/3Part of Expressions
The word 'maize' appears in idioms and expressions with agricultural or rural connotations.
As popular as corn in August, he was welcomed everywhere.
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Video examples
The history of the world...
These mountains of maize inspired numerous corn concoctions. Cornstarch could be used as a thickening agent for everything from gasoline to glue or processed into a low-cost sweetener known as High-Fructose Corn Syrup. Maize quickly became one of the cheapest animal feeds worldwide. This allowed for inexpensive meat production,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...
the world and what we'll do is we get as much nice meat as we can find and we throw it on the fire and we'll have some vegetables that will do on the fire basically corn on the cob there'll also be salads and a bit of pup which is basically a white polenta it's maize meal that's ground down mixed with water
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Jacqueline Novogratz:...
because it's a high value-add product." The farmers get three to four times the yields that they would with maize. And so, using patient capital -- money that they could raise early on, that actually got below market returns and was willing to go the long haul and be combined
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The Mindset Shift Needed...
that fortifies maize flour at small mills in Africa. Now they have a market-based model that helps provide fortified, nutritious flour to their clients of the small mills at no additional cost. Right now it's reaching up to three million people
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How to rebuild the world...
most important plants have been these the cereal crops and in particular the first three he's gone backwards not forwards let's try that again I mean these the cereal crops and in particular the first three wheat rice and maize
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Maps that show us who we...
within my lifetime to see this is where we are living. We have enough water. This is a map of where we grow our food in the world. This is the areas that we will rely on most for rice and maize and corn.
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Why Four Cowboys Rode...
how prestigious the maize School of Business is and I was like yeah and she told me that I was the first person to ever transfer from the business school to the wildlife school and one day I
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The Maya myth of the...
one of the hero twins known to all for having vanquished the lords of the underworld. A new race of humans was created, made from maize. This state of balance was not to last, however.
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Mummified Child...
the death of the maiden a shift from a diet of vegetables and potatoes was changed to the food of the elite maize an animal protein
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David Attenborough Meets...
from my hand and once a baby did manage to grab a grain its mother wrenched open its jaws extracted the maize unaided herself
Video examples
The history of the world...
These mountains of maize inspired numerous corn concoctions. Cornstarch could be used as a thickening agent for everything from gasoline to glue or processed into a low-cost sweetener known as High-Fructose Corn Syrup. Maize quickly became one of the cheapest animal feeds worldwide. This allowed for inexpensive meat production,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...
the world and what we'll do is we get as much nice meat as we can find and we throw it on the fire and we'll have some vegetables that will do on the fire basically corn on the cob there'll also be salads and a bit of pup which is basically a white polenta it's maize meal that's ground down mixed with water
Video examples
Jacqueline Novogratz:...
because it's a high value-add product." The farmers get three to four times the yields that they would with maize. And so, using patient capital -- money that they could raise early on, that actually got below market returns and was willing to go the long haul and be combined
Video examples
The Mindset Shift Needed...
that fortifies maize flour at small mills in Africa. Now they have a market-based model that helps provide fortified, nutritious flour to their clients of the small mills at no additional cost. Right now it's reaching up to three million people
Video examples
How to rebuild the world...
most important plants have been these the cereal crops and in particular the first three he's gone backwards not forwards let's try that again I mean these the cereal crops and in particular the first three wheat rice and maize
Video examples
Maps that show us who we...
within my lifetime to see this is where we are living. We have enough water. This is a map of where we grow our food in the world. This is the areas that we will rely on most for rice and maize and corn.
Video examples
Why Four Cowboys Rode...
how prestigious the maize School of Business is and I was like yeah and she told me that I was the first person to ever transfer from the business school to the wildlife school and one day I
Video examples
The Maya myth of the...
one of the hero twins known to all for having vanquished the lords of the underworld. A new race of humans was created, made from maize. This state of balance was not to last, however.
Video examples
Mummified Child...
the death of the maiden a shift from a diet of vegetables and potatoes was changed to the food of the elite maize an animal protein
Video examples
David Attenborough Meets...
from my hand and once a baby did manage to grab a grain its mother wrenched open its jaws extracted the maize unaided herself
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
M. S. Swaminathan
Indian Scientist
In any case, if I grow hybrid maize or hybrid pearl mallet or any hybrid, I have to sow fresh seed every year. I cannot keep the seed of the same plant. If I keep the seed of the same plant, yield will be much less and there will be a wide variation in the field, like maturity period, quality and so on.
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Gavin Creel
American Actor
I have no idea why we bleed maize and blue, but we do. There's something about Michigan. Maybe it's that we're less jaded out there in the Midwest, I don't know, but it's a love of what we do and each other that brings us together. It's just a magic place.
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Norman Borlaug
American Scientist
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago.
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Kwasi Kwarteng
British Politician
In Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Angola and Cameroon maize is a staple, yet the earliest mention of maize in west Africa comes from a Portuguese document that lists it as being loaded on to slave ships bound for Africa.
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Amarinder Singh
Indian Politician
Maize is used both as fodder and grain in the state. A large number of fodder-baled silage units have come up in Punjab, which take maize crop from the farmers at reasonable price and turn it into baled silage.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Bill Gates
American Businessman
The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.
Quote examples
Elizabeth Blackburn
Australian Scientist
As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in the Central American highlands.
Quote examples
Barbara McClintock
American Scientist
It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
Quote examples
M. S. Swaminathan
Indian Scientist
In any case, if I grow hybrid maize or hybrid pearl mallet or any hybrid, I have to sow fresh seed every year. I cannot keep the seed of the same plant. If I keep the seed of the same plant, yield will be much less and there will be a wide variation in the field, like maturity period, quality and so on.
Quote examples
Gavin Creel
American Actor
I have no idea why we bleed maize and blue, but we do. There's something about Michigan. Maybe it's that we're less jaded out there in the Midwest, I don't know, but it's a love of what we do and each other that brings us together. It's just a magic place.
Quote examples
Norman Borlaug
American Scientist
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago.
Quote examples
Kwasi Kwarteng
British Politician
In Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Angola and Cameroon maize is a staple, yet the earliest mention of maize in west Africa comes from a Portuguese document that lists it as being loaded on to slave ships bound for Africa.
Quote examples
Amarinder Singh
Indian Politician
Maize is used both as fodder and grain in the state. A large number of fodder-baled silage units have come up in Punjab, which take maize crop from the farmers at reasonable price and turn it into baled silage.
Quote examples
P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
Quote examples
Bill Gates
American Businessman
The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.
Quote examples
Elizabeth Blackburn
Australian Scientist
As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in the Central American highlands.
Quote examples
Barbara McClintock
American Scientist
It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
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