zea saccharata

Questions about zea saccharata

What does zea saccharata mean?

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

What is another word for zea saccharata?

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

zea saccharata 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.