OROÑA Less common name of corn . Plant of the family of the Grasses, of thick stem, of one to three meters of height, with long, flat and pointed leaves. The male flowers in terminal clusters and the female ones in axillary spikes protected by a sheath. It is native to tropical America, is grown throughout America and Europe and produces cobs with very nutritious coarse and yellow grains. Until the twentieth century in Europe they were fed with pigs and was not consumed by humans, probably because the cobs were normally attacked by worms. World War I and World War II, in addition to pesticides, changed that. In Chile : corn . In Peru : sara . 2 . Surname of Basque origin.
