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Ze⋅a

  [zee-uh]
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–noun
1. Keos.
2. a female given name.

Ke⋅os

  [ke-aws; Eng. kee-os]
–noun
a Greek island in the Aegean, off the SE coast of the Greek mainland. 1666; 56 sq. mi. (145 sq. km).
Also called Kea, Zea.
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Zea

a genus of four wild Mexican and Mesoamerican species of large grasses of the family Poaceae, order Poales. The two best-known grasses are members of Zea mays, which has four subspecies. In particular, corn, or maize (Z. mays mays), belongs to a worldwide cultigen derived from one of the Mexican teosintes (subspecies parviglumis) in pre-Columbian times more than 5,000 years ago.

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