semiflint
English
Noun
semiflint (plural semiflints)
- Maize or corn that is a hybrid where one parent species is flint and the other has a soft outer hull.
- 1957, William H. Hatheway, Races of Maize in Cuba, page 28:
- 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.
- 2005, James C McCann, Maize and Grace, page 84:
- They include red flints and semiflints, red dents, purple, mixed yellow and white, and variegated colors.
- Clay that is hard rather than plastic but that lacks the conchoidal fracture pattern of flint.
- 1927, Bulletin - Volumes 36-48, page 266:
- The calory- temperature curve for the flints and semiflints resembled one another very closely. The semiflints required a little greater heat to 1000°C.