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means The cereal plant (and its kernels) known in some countries as corn, domesticated from a wild grass and now grown in greater quantity than any other grain on Earth.

from From Spanish maíz, taken from an Arawakan/Taíno word (mahiz or mahís) spoken by Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, where Columbus's expeditions first encountered the crop. Spanish and Portuguese colonizers carried the word into Europe, and English borrowed it in the 1500s — one of the earliest New World loanwords to take root in the language. The plant itself was domesticated far earlier and far inland, bred up over millennia by Indigenous farmers in Mesoamerica from a scraggly grass called teosinte, before spreading across the Americas long before any European heard its name.