Noun zea mays has 1 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
    --1 is a kind of cereal, cereal grass
    --1 is a member of Zea, genus Zea
    --1 has parts:
     corn, edible corn; corncob; ear, spike, capitulum
    --1 has particulars:
     field corn; sweet corn, sugar corn, green corn, sweet corn plant, Zea mays rugosa, Zea saccharata; popcorn, Zea mays everta
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