Maize vs. Maze — What's the Difference?

Maize ( MAYZ; Zea mays subsp. mays, from Spanish: maíz after Taino: mahiz), also known as corn (North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.

A maze is a path or collection of paths, typically from an entrance to a goal. The word is used to refer both to branching tour puzzles through which the solver must find a route, and to simpler non-branching ("unicursal") patterns that lead unambiguously through a convoluted layout to a goal.

A Central American cereal plant that yields large grains (corn or sweetcorn) set in rows on a cob. The many varieties include some used for stockfeed and corn oil.

An intricate, usually confusing network of interconnecting pathways, as in a garden; a labyrinth.

See corn1.

A physical situation in which it is easy to get lost

A light yellow to moderate orange yellow.

A graphic puzzle, the solution of which is an uninterrupted path through an intricate pattern of line segments from a starting point to a goal.

Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.

Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle

A large species of American grass of the genus Zea (Zea Mays), widely cultivated as a forage and food plant; Indian corn, commonly called corn. Also, its seed, growing on cobs, and used as food for men and animals.

To bewilder or astonish.

Tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times

To stupefy; daze.

A strong yellow color

A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through.

Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle.

(archaic) Confusion of thought; state of bewilderment.

To amaze, astonish, bewilder.

To daze or stupefy.

A wild fancy; a confused notion.

Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.

A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth.

A complex and confusing system or set of rules that causes bwilderment; as, a maze of environemntal regulations.

To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.

To be bewildered.

Complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost

Something jumbled or confused;