n.
Pronunciation: ˌ t ā - ō - ' sin-t ē
Function: noun
Etymology: Mexican Spanish, from Nahuatl te ō cintli, from te ō tl god + cintli dried ears of maize
Date: circa 1877
: a tall annual grass ( Zea mexicana syn. Z. mays mexicana ) especially of the central highlands of Mexico that is closely related to and sometimes considered ancestral to Indian corn