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teosinte
[ tee-uh-sin-tee, tey- ]
noun
- a tall grass, Zea mexicana, of Mexico and Central America, closely related to corn, and sometimes cultivated as a fodder plant.
teosinte
/ ËŒ³Ù¾±Ëəʊˈ²õɪ²Ô³Ùɪ /
noun
- a tall Central American annual grass, Euchlaena mexicana, related to maize and grown for forage in the southern US
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of teosinte1
1875–80; < Mexican Spanish < Nahuatl ³Ù±ðų¦¾±²Ô³Ù±ô¾±, equivalent to ³Ù±ðÅ ( tl ) god + cintli dried ear of maize
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of teosinte1
C19: from Nahuatl teocentli, from teotl god + centli dry ear of corn
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Corn was born here about 9,000 years ago, when Mesoamerican farmers first started to domesticate the wild grass known as teosinte.
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And yet experts all agree that the genus teosinte is the ancestral form of all modern varieties of maize.
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Over the last eight years, the participating research groups have investigated around 9,000 varieties of maize and 170 varieties of teosinte around the world.
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The results showed how the root structure has radically changed during the domestication of teosinte to cultivated maize.
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"This is not the case with teosinte."
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