HOMINY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hulled corn with the bran and germ removed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("hominy" is a kind of...):

corn; edible corn (ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hominy"):

lye hominy (hominy prepared by bleaching in lye)

pearl hominy (hominy prepared by milling to pellets of medium size)

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