Sentence:  <WSD>Corn</WSD> was the staff of life for many Indian people before contact, and it became the staff of life for many European colonists. <WSD>Corn</WSD> was higher in nutrition than most other grain crops. John Lawson, who travelled in South Carolina and into the interior Indian country in 1701, was one of the many colonists who sang the praises of <WSD>corn</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Maize, a grain crop of the species "Zea mays".