In addition to the botanical and group definitions, the Mazorca was a parapolicial popular force addicted to the federalist governor of Buenos Aires (Argentina) Juan Manuel de Rosas, in the mid-19th century. The origin of the name is still discussed; for some it is a contraction of "more gallows", although the dismanage or beheading of their adversaries was more common; for others the name came from the custom of humiliating their victims by publicly introducing a corn cob into the anus, but this practice may be a consequence of the name and not a cause.
