maize¹ /māz/

1. A tall cereal grass (Zea mays) grown esp in America, producing large ears (corncobs) of yellow kernels which are eaten as a vegetable or dried and ground into meal (also called Indian corn or mealies)
2. The yellow colour of maize kernels

water maize

A giant perennial water lily (Victoria regia) native to tropical America

mease¹ /mēz/, maze, maize or maise /māz/ (dialect)

A measure of five ‘hundreds' of herrings, varying from 500 to 630

• much cry and little wool
• muchel
• muchell
• muches
• much less
• muchly
• muchness
• muchnesses
• much of a muchness
• much to one's surprise
• mucic acid
• mucid
• muciferous
• mucigen
• mucigens
• mucilage
• mucilages
• mucilaginous
• mucilaginousness
• mucin
• mucinous
• mucins
• muck
• muck-a-muck
• mucked