wild rice
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Noun
[edit]wild rice (usually uncountable, plural wild rices)
- Rice of any of four species of grasses which form the genus Zizania, which have edible grains and edible stems.
- Edible grain (edible rice) harvested from these grasses.
- Rice of species Oryza rufipogon
Hyponyms
[edit]- (Zizania spp.): annual wild rice, Canadian wild rice, Indian rice, water oats (Zizania aquatica), Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), northern wild rice (Zizania palustris), Texas wild rice (Zizania texana)
Translations
[edit]any species of Zizania
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Further reading
[edit]Zizania on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Zizania on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Zizania on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- wild rice at USDA Plants database