Growing on old stalks and leaves of zea mays.
"The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio"
A. P. Morgan
With Jacob to back her, Mary treated the "zea-bear," as Jacob termed him, with vast disdain, and was so saucy to him that, forgetting his admiration, he declared he would like to serve her as the Indians had done a scolding woman in South America.
"Roughing it in the Bush"
Susanna Moodie
Yer name var zetch avanct avare y'e, e'en a dicke var hie, arent whilke ye brine o' zea, an ee crags o'noghanes cazed nae balk.
"The English Language"
Robert Gordon Latham