Usually means: Wild ancestor of modern maize.
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  1. teosinte: Merriam-Webster
  2. teosinte: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. teosinte: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. teosinte: Collins English Dictionary
  5. teosinte: Wordnik
  6. teosinte: Wiktionary
  7. teosinte: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. teosinte: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. teosinte: Dictionary.com
  10. Teosinte (disambiguation), Teosinte: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Teosinte: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. teosinte: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Teosinte: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. teosinte: FreeDictionary.org
  15. teosinte: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (teosinte)

noun:  Any of a few species of maize-like grasses of the genus Zea found in Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
noun:  Zea diploperennis
noun:  Zea perennis
noun:  Zea luxurians
noun:  Zea nicaraguensis

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