maizes

See also: Maizes and maizēs

English

Noun

maizes

1. plural of maize
   • 1919, Various, Cambridge Essays on Education‎^[1]:

     If these maizes were two boys, not improbably the one would be caned for failing to respond to treatment so efficacious in the case of the other.

   • 1997 August 22, Charles Mann, “BOTANY: Cashing in on Seed Banks' Novel Genes”, in Science‎^[2], volume 277, number 5329, →DOI:

     By crossing the wild and cultivated maizes, researchers created resistant varieties, saving thousands of farmers from ruin.

   • 2007 October 25, Reuters, “Approval for 4 Modified Crops”, in New York Times‎^[3]:

     The first maize and one of the hybrid maizes are made jointly by Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a subsidiary of DuPont, and Mycogen Seeds, a unit of Dow AgroSciences, which is owned by Dow Chemical .

Latvian

Noun

maizes f

1. inflection of maize:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/vocative/accusative plural