A process for the preparation of maize (corn) in which the grain is soaked and cooked in an alkaline solution, usually limewater, and hulled.

Hominy; maize kernels which have undergone nixtamalization, that is, hulling and soaking and cooking in an alkaline solution.

simple past tense and past participle of nixtamalize

present participle of nixtamalize

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nixtamalize

(transitive) To prepare (maize) by nixtamalization.