Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun zea_mays

1 sense of zea mays

Sense 1
corn, maize, Indian corn, Zea mays -- (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)
       => cereal, cereal grass -- (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)