horsetooth

English

Noun

horsetooth (uncountable)

1. A type of maize with kernels shaped like a horse's tooth, especially dent maize or a subtype.
   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 62:

     What determined the success of his business was […] a seven-field crop rotation, with wheat, horsetooth maize, sunflower, clover, and sainfoin following each other and giving a bigger and better crop from year to year […].