zea mays rugosa

Questions about zea mays rugosa

What does zea mays rugosa mean?

zea mays rugosa means "a corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating".

What is another word for zea mays rugosa?

Close synonyms include sweet corn, sugar corn, green corn, sweet corn plant, Zea saccharata. 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 rugosa a common word?

zea mays rugosa 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.