“turkey wheat”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

turkey wheat

释义

turkey wheat
[Turkey¹.]
The cereal Maize, called also † Guinea corn and Indian corn.
1598Florio, Brena, a kind of ginnie or turkie wheate.1611Cotgr., Mays, Turkie corne, Turkie wheat.1674J. Josselyn Voy. New Eng. 73 Maze, otherwise called Turkie-wheat, or rather Indian-wheat, because it came first from thence.1704tr. Lemery's Treat. Foods 71 (D.) There grows in several parts of Africa, Asia, and America, a kind of corn called Mays, and such as we commonly name Turkey wheat.1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1796) II. iv. 102 Maize, well-known in Europe by the name of Turkey or Indian Wheat.1883Parkman Discov. Gt. West ii. 13 The ordinary food is Indian corn, or Turkey wheat as they call it in France.

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