pearl hominy
- noun
- US
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hominy perlado
- She found pearl hominy at the specialty grocery store downtown.
Examples
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I bought some pearl hominy for dinner.
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Traditional Southern dishes often feature pearl hominy as a main ingredient.
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The recipe calls for a cup of pearl hominy to be added to the stew.
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Have you ever tried pearl hominy?
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In the traditional dish, the chef added large pearl hominy to enhance the texture and flavor.
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For a hearty meal, you can cook pearl hominy with beans and spices to create a delicious stew.
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The recipe called for pearl hominy, which gives the dish a unique chewiness that pairs well with the broth.
How Milled
Surface Forms
Morphology
The modifier 'pearl' evokes a small, rounded, bead‑like appearance when combined with 'hominy', so a learner who knows both words can infer this refers to a processed form of hominy resembling little pearls. However, the precise culinary/process meaning (milled into medium‑sized pellets) is specialized jargon and not fully predictable without prior exposure, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
The name pearl hominy comes from the look of the corn after it is milled: the grains become small, round pieces that look like little pearls. So pearl hominy means hominy that has been made into 'medium-sized pellets' for cooking.