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Maize vs Popcorn - What's the difference?

maize | popcorn |

As nouns the difference between maize and popcorn

is that maize is corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays while popcorn is a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating.

As a verb popcorn is

to stand up or jump up quickly.

maize

English

(wikipedia maize) (Zea mays)

Noun

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

    * ----

    popcorn

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pop-corn, popped corn

    Noun

  • (chiefly, uncountable) A snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating.
  • (knitting) A kind of stitch similar to a bobble.
  • * 2008 , Claire Compton, ?Sue Whiting, The Knitting and Crochet Bible (page 45)
    • From the top the sample shows four stitch popcorns , five stitch bobbles, two rows of bells and a central leaf with leaves sloping to the left and right each side.

    Derived terms

    * popcorn movie

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to stand up or jump up quickly

    • See also

    * brownie * cake * candy cane * chip, potato chip / potato crisp * Cracker Jack * donut / doughnut * ice cream * jelly roll, Swiss roll * pretzel ----