flint maize

1. 1.

   corn having kernels with a hard outer layer enclosing the soft endosperm

   Synonymsflint cornYankee cornZea mays indurata

   Broaderfield corn

Questions about flint maize

What does flint maize mean?

flint maize means "corn having kernels with a hard outer layer enclosing the soft endosperm".

What is another word for flint maize?

Close synonyms include flint corn, Yankee corn, Zea mays indurata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flint maize a common word?

flint maize is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.