whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy).
Origin: 1620–30, Americanism; < Virginia Algonquian (E sp.) uskatahomen,usketchamun a nominalized pass. v., lit., that which is treated (in the way specified by the unidentified initial element), here prob. that which is ground or beaten
[hom-uh-nee] 
