hominy

n. 玉米粥

发音

其它 /ˈhɒmɪni/

词形变化

hominies 复数 hominies

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits.

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词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

corn

相关短语

hominy snow hominy snows

词源

First recorded in 1629. From Powhatan ("Virginia Algonquian"), though the exact source word is in question: suggestions include uskatahomen, appuminnéonash (“parched corn”), and rokohamin (“parched, ground corn”), the last yielding also the unclipped rockahominy.

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