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Brewer's: Maize
(1 syl.). According to American superstition, if a damsel finds a blood-red ear of maize, she will have a suitor before the year is over. “Even the blood-red ear to Evangeline brought not…maize
(Encyclopedia) maize: see corn.milo, in botany
(Encyclopedia) milo or milo maize: see sorghum.Eastern Cape
(Encyclopedia) Eastern Cape, province, 65,238 sq mi (168,966 sq km), S central South Africa, on the Indian Ocean. In 1994, under South Africa's post-…The Song of Hiawatha: Blessing the Cornfields
The Son of the Evening Star Picture-Writing Blessing the Cornfields Sing, O Song of Hiawatha, Of the happy days that followed, In the land of the Ojibways, In the pleasant land and…Barbara McClintock
Name at birth: Eleanor McClintockScientist Barbara McClintock was given the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1983, in recognition of her decades-long work on the genetics of maize. Educated…sorghum
(Encyclopedia) sorghum, tall, coarse annual (Sorghum bicolor) of the family Poaceae (grass family), somewhat similar in appearance to corn (but having the grain in a panicle rather than an ear) and…Brewer's: Maitland Club
(The) of literary antiquities, instituted at Glasgow in 1828. It published a number of works. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894MaizeMaintain A B C D E F…Brewer's: Majesty
Henry VIII. was the first English sovereign who was styled “His Majesty.” Henry IV. was “His Grace;” Henry VI, “His Excellent Grace;” Edward IV., “High and Mighty Prince;” Henry VII., “His…grain, in agriculture
(Encyclopedia) grain, in agriculture, term referring to the caryopsis, or dry fruit, of a cereal grass. The term is also applied to the seedlike fruits of buckwheat and of certain other plants and is…Trending
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