Antonyms for maize
meɪzmaize

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.8 / 6 votes

1. maizenoun

   corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays

   Synonyms:
   Indian corn, corn, sweet corn, green corn, sugar corn

Matched Categories

1. • Cereal Grass
   • Yellow

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. corn, maize, Indian corn, Zea maysnoun

   tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times

   Synonyms:
   edible corn, corn whiskey, lemon, corn, corn whisky, clavus, lemon yellow, gamboge

2. gamboge, lemon, lemon yellow, maizenoun

   a strong yellow color

   Synonyms:
   gamboge, lemon, stinker, lemon yellow, corn, lemon tree

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. beans

   beans beans the magicle fruit the more you eat the more you tute

   i will eat beans

   Submitted by anonymous on January 21, 2020  

How to use maize in a sentence?

1. Obert Gutu:

   ZANU-PF should be utterly ashamed of hosting an expensive birthday bash for their aging ruler whilst more than 90 percent of Zimbabweans are wallowing in grinding poverty caused by decades of Robert Mugabe's misrule and mismanagement of the economy, the money that is being budgeted for this ill-conceived birthday bash should actually be used to import maize to avert the impending starvation in Masvingo province and other parts of the country.

2. Senzeni Zokwana:

   Maize is one of our staple foods which our people depend upon so our department would approach other funding agencies.

3. Wandile Sihlobo:

   In the short term, between now and three months, the conflict will affect food supply primarily from a pricing perspective, as net importers of products like wheat, which influences bread and cereals, sunflower oil and maize, African countries are fairly exposed on some of these supplies that are coming out of Russia and Ukraine. There will be challenges if the war continues for more than three months — because ordinarily, countries usually keep stock of supplies for three to five months.

4. Barron Segar:

   There's enough food between corn maize and wheat and oil that's stored in silos or on container ships in Ukraine to feed 400 million people, imagine if we can't get that food to those who are starving, to those who are hungry.

5. Krystal Tolley:

   The first one we found was in the transition zone on the forest edge, where there are some trees but mostly maize and cassava plants, when we found it we got goosebumps and just started jumping around. We didn't know if we would get any more, but once we got into the forest there were plenty, although I don't know how long that will last.

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