| Noun | 1. | maize - 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 timescorncob - the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn cereal, cereal grass - grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet field corn - corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain | |