horsetoothとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

horsetooth (uncountable)

1. A type of maize with kernels shaped like a horse's tooth, especially dent maize or a subtype.
   • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 62:

     What determined the success of his business was […] a seven-field crop rotation, with wheat, horsetooth maize, sunflower, clover, and sainfoin following each other and giving a bigger and better crop from year to year […].