[TURKEY1.] The cereal Maize, called also † Guinea corn and Indian corn.
1598. Florio, Brena, a kind of ginnie or turkie wheate.
1611. Cotgr., Mays, Turkie corne, Turkie wheat.
1674. Josselyn, Voy. New Eng., 73. Maze, otherwise called Turkie-wheat, or rather Indian-wheat, because it came first from thence.
1704. trans. Lemery’s Treat. Foods, 71 (D.). There grows in several parts of Africa, Asia, and America, a kind of corn called Mays, and such as we commonly name Turkey wheat.
1777. Robertson, Hist. Amer. (1796), II. IV. 102. Maize, well-known in Europe by the name of Turkey or Indian Wheat.
1883. Parkman, Discov. Gt. West, ii. 13. The ordinary food is Indian corn, or Turkey wheat as they call it in France.
