zea mays indentata

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   corn whose kernels contain both hard and soft starch and become indented at maturity

   Synonymsdent corn

   Broaderfield corn

Questions about zea mays indentata

What does zea mays indentata mean?

zea mays indentata means "corn whose kernels contain both hard and soft starch and become indented at maturity".

What is another word for zea mays indentata?

Close synonyms include dent corn. 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 zea mays indentata a common word?

zea mays indentata 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.