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Maize

Maize ( MAYZ; Zea mays subsp. mays, from Spanish: maíz after Taino: mahiz), also known as corn (North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.

Maze

A maze is a path or collection of paths, typically from an entrance to a goal. The word is used to refer both to branching tour puzzles through which the solver must find a route, and to simpler non-branching ("unicursal") patterns that lead unambiguously through a convoluted layout to a goal.

Maize

A Central American cereal plant that yields large grains (corn or sweetcorn) set in rows on a cob. The many varieties include some used for stockfeed and corn oil.

Maze

An intricate, usually confusing network of interconnecting pathways, as in a garden; a labyrinth.

Maize

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Maze

A physical situation in which it is easy to get lost
A maze of bureaucratic divisions.

Maize

A light yellow to moderate orange yellow.

Maze

A graphic puzzle, the solution of which is an uninterrupted path through an intricate pattern of line segments from a starting point to a goal.

Maize

Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.

Maze

Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle
A maze of government regulations.
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Maize

A large species of American grass of the genus Zea (Zea Mays), widely cultivated as a forage and food plant; Indian corn, commonly called corn. Also, its seed, growing on cobs, and used as food for men and animals.

Maze

To bewilder or astonish.

Maize

Tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times

Maze

To stupefy; daze.

Maize

A strong yellow color

Maze

A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through.

Maze

Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle.

Maze

(archaic) Confusion of thought; state of bewilderment.

Maze

To amaze, astonish, bewilder.

Maze

To daze or stupefy.

Maze

A wild fancy; a confused notion.

Maze

Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.

Maze

A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth.
Or down the tempting maze of Shawford brook.
The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate,Puzzled with mazes, and perplexed with error.

Maze

A complex and confusing system or set of rules that causes bwilderment; as, a maze of environemntal regulations.

Maze

To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.

Maze

To be bewildered.

Maze

Complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost

Maze

Something jumbled or confused;
A tangle of government regulations

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