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. Talent Cele:

   I have to sell cattle to buy feed because we have been advised to reduce the numbers. But feed is expensive and I also want to plant maize to feed the cows but I cannot. It is too dry.

4. Maneo Motsamai:

   I boil water to cook mealie meal (maize porridge) and the power goes. I can’t eat, it’s a waste. I can’t cope like that.

5. Jurie Mentz:

   Most of the guys in the project used to grow maize for household consumption. Now they are making money as well.

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