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Maize vs Acorn - What's the difference?

maize | acorn |

As nouns the difference between maize and acorn

is that maize is corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays while acorn is the fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

maize

English

(wikipedia maize) (Zea mays)

Noun

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  • Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays .
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    • 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 (-)

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    acorn

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
  • (nautical) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
  • (zoology) See acorn-shell .
  • (slang, usually in plural) A testicle.

    • Derived terms

    * acorn cup * acorn nut * acorn squash * eggcorn * ride a horse foaled by an acorn

    Holonyms

    * (fruit of an oak) oak

    See also

    * (wikipedia)

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