单词 | hominy |
释义 | hominy /hom"euh nee/, n. whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy). [1620-30, Amer.; < Virginia Algonquian (E sp.) uskatahomen, usketchamun a nominalized pass. v., lit., that which is treated (in the way specified by the unidentified initial element), here prob. that which is ground or beaten] |
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