maize
maize 英 [meɪz] 美 [mez]
adj. 黄色的，玉米色的 n. 玉米；黄色，玉米色
名词复数:maizes
- Maize is another word for corn, the tall-growing grain that produces yellow kernels on long ears. A small farmer might grow several different types of maize.
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- adj. 黄色的，玉米色的
- n. 玉米；黄色，玉米色
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1. We can grow sorghum or maize on this plot.
这块地可以种高粱或玉米。
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2. The warmer temperatures mean that some of them can now grow peaches and maize where previously they could not.
升高的温度意味着一些村民能种植桃子和玉米这些从前不能种植的作物了。
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3. The researchers say it should be possible to transfer this process to rice by inserting genes from maize or from wild relatives of rice that also use it.
科学家说，通过把来自玉米或者具有此功能的水稻野生亲属的基因插入水稻中，就有可能让水稻也具有这一功能。
- maize (n.) 1550s, from Cuban Spanish maiz, from Arawakan (Haiti) mahiz.
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