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Maize vs Xorn - What's the difference?

maize | xorn |

As nouns the difference between maize and xorn

is that maize is corn; a type of grain of the species zea mays while xorn is (fantasy) a fictional monster that devours earthen and silicate materials and can move freely through earth.

maize

English

(wikipedia maize) (Zea mays)

Noun

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  • 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

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    xorn

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (fantasy) A fictional monster that devours earthen and silicate materials and can move freely through earth.
  • * 2002 , "David Damerell", Where are they come from?(SIC) ;)'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.roguelike.development )
    • Various monsters can tunnel through rock - either humanoid monsters with picks or rock eaters like rock moles and umber hulks; and some monsters like xorns and ghosts can pass through it without digging.
  • * 2007 , "bear", Makes Lovely Julienne Ogres....'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.roguelike.angband )
    • Teleporting from an open room where there were a dozen black orcs firing bows at me and more pouring in through both doors a few nights ago didn't work the first two times, then when it did work it landed me, low on mana and hitpoints, in a room full of gnome mages who instantly summoned four umber hulks and a xorn !
  • * 2010 , Roger Bourke White, Rostov Rising: The Tales of Baron Rostov (page 229)
    • That afternoon, I summoned a Xorn —an earth elemental noted for its speed—and asked it to scout the caves of the Dragon's lair for me.