Maize vs Cocoyam - What's the difference?
maize | cocoyam |
Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays .
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New cocoyam: Xanthosoma'', particularly ''Xanthosoma sagittifolium , or the edible root of that plant; malanga.
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Old cocoyam: Colocasia esculenta ; taro.
As nouns the difference between maize and cocoyam
is that maize is corn; a type of grain of the species zea mays while cocoyam is new cocoyam: xanthosoma'', particularly ''xanthosoma sagittifolium , or the edible root of that plant; malanga.maize
English
(wikipedia maize) (Zea mays)Noun
(-)- A fundamental creative act of American man was the development of maize'. For it was ' maize that made possible and sustained the whole Peruvian civilization as well as Mexican and Central American ones. Exactly where it originated is not known, but corn was found in pre-Mayan graves dating to 3000 B.C.
Synonyms
* (Zea mays) corn (US English, Canadian English); green corn, Indian corn, sugar corn, sweet corn (-)Anagrams
* ----cocoyam
English
(wikipedia cocoyam)Noun
(en noun)citation