northern wild rice

English

Ojibwes harvesting northern wild rice

Noun

northern wild rice (uncountable)

1. , a species of wild rice, native to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and Canada north and west of the Great Lakes.

Synonyms

• (Zizania palustris): Indian rice, Canada rice

Translations

Zizania palustris

• Basque: basa arroz
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沼生菰 (zhǎoshēnggū)

• Dutch: wilde rijst (nl) n
• Finnish: intiaaniriisi (fi)
• French: riz sauvage (fr) m
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• Galician: arroz salvaxe (gl) m
• German: Wasserreis m
• Hungarian: vadrizs (hu)
• Ojibwe: manoomin
• Russian: цица́ния (ru) f (cicánija)
• Spanish: arroz indígena m

Further reading

• Zizania (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Zizania palustris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Zizania palustris on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Zizania palustris at USDA Plants database