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HOMINY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hominy mean?
• HOMINY (noun)
The noun HOMINY has 1 sense:
1. hulled corn with the bran and germ removed
Familiarity information: HOMINY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hulled corn with the bran and germ removed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("hominy" is a kind of...):
corn; edible corn (ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hominy"):
lye hominy (hominy prepared by bleaching in lye)
pearl hominy (hominy prepared by milling to pellets of medium size)
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