Maize vs Rice - What's the difference?
maize | rice |
Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays .
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(uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
A specific variety of this plant.
(uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces.
To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
To belittle a government emissary or similar on behalf of a more powerful militaristic state.
To harvest wild rice Zinzania sp.
1000 English basic words
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As a noun maize
is corn; a type of grain of the species zea mays .As a verb rice is
.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.