maize
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
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
Types & categories
- cereal hypernym
- field corn hyponym
- sweet corn hyponym
- popcorn hyponym
Parts & wholes
- Zea member holonym
- edible corn part meronym
- corncob part meronym
- cornstalk part meronym
- capitulum part meronym
Related & opposite
- corn derivation
Sense 2 noun
a strong yellow color
Types & categories
- yellow hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | corn |
| 1 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Zea |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | edible corn |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | corncob |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | cornstalk |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | capitulum |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | cereal |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | field corn |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sweet corn |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | popcorn |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | yellow |