horsetooth
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]horsetooth (uncountable)
- A type of maize with kernels shaped like a horse's tooth, especially dent maize or a subtype.
- 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 62:
- What determined the success of his business was […] a seven-field crop rotation, with wheat, horsetooth maize, sunflower, clover, and sainfoin following each other and giving a bigger and better crop from year to year […].