wild rice

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English

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wild rice growing in the Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge
a bowl of cooked wild rice

Noun

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wild rice (usually uncountable, plural wild rices)

  1. Rice of any of four species of grasses which form the genus Zizania, which have edible grains and edible stems.
  2. Edible grain (edible rice) harvested from these grasses.
  3. Rice of species Oryza rufipogon

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