turkey wheatn.
The cereal Maize, called also †Guinea corn and Indian corn.
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turkey wheat1598
Indian corn1604
Indian1641
Turkish wheat1670
mealies1801
kanga1843
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Brena, a kind of ginnie or turkie wheate.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mays, Turkie corne, Turkie wheat.
1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 73 Maze, otherwise called Turkie-wheat, or rather Indian-wheat, because it came first from thence.
1704 tr. L. Lémery Treat. Foods 71 There grows in several parts of Africa, Asia, and America, a kind of corn called Mays, and such as we commonly name Turkey wheat.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1796) II. iv. 102 Maize, well-known in Europe by the name of Turkey or Indian Wheat.
1879 F. Parkman Discov. Great West (ed. 11) ii. 13 The ordinary food is Indian corn, or Turkey wheat as they call it in France.
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