| 单词 | great corn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat corn great corn n. now historical and rare maize, Zea mays; a grain of this; a main crop of maize (as grown by certain American Indian peoples). ΚΠ 1682 R. Thelwall Let. 4 May in R. Law Eng. in W. Afr. (1997) I. 111 These people as yett have not done sowing their small corne, soe that att present I cannot gett any great corne. 1699 I. Blackwell Descr. Province Darian 15 They have no way of Learning amongst any of them: their way of numbering anything, is by small Stones, or pickles of great Corn. 1750 J. Birket Jrnl. 9 Oct. in Some Remarks Voy. N. Amer. (1916) 36 Here the [sic] produce wheat, Rye, Hops, & abundance of Maze or Great corn. 1844 Simmonds's Colonial Mag. 1 58 It would betray vast ignorance of the subject to assert that great corn is not a considerable exhauster of the soil. 1977 Agric. Hist. 51 513 Maize was harvested twice a year, the ‘little corn’ in July, and the harvest of ‘great corn’ in September. < as lemmas |
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