Definition of paradoxical. 1  1a : of the nature of a paradox the paradoxical theory that global warming will lead to the next Ice Ageb : inclined to paradoxes. 2  2 : not being the normal or usual kind a paradoxical pulse paradoxical drug reactions.
10 hilariously insightful foreign words. Hominy refers to corn kernels without their germ and their hull, or bran. The germ and hull might be removed by soaking the corn in a special type of solution or by crushing the kernels and then sifting them out.
This leaves you white corn. After the hominy is  course ground, it is boiled until softened.   A variation of hominy is lye hominy where the corn is soaked in  wood ash lye until the husks and the outer hulls come off. Hominy  can be eaten as is, or dried and ground into grits.