semiflint

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Maize or corn that is a hybrid where one parent species is flint and the other has a soft outer hull.
    — Although its influence is clearly visible in many Criollo semiflints collected in 1954, "Maiz Gibara" is not popular with the small farmer who grows corn for home consumption.
  2. Clay that is hard rather than plastic but that lacks the conchoidal fracture pattern of flint.
    — The calory- temperature curve for the flints and semiflints resembled one another very closely. The semiflints required a little greater heat to 1000°C.

词形变化

semiflints plural
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