wild rice
English
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Noun
wild rice (usually uncountable, plural wild rices)
- Any one of the four species of grasses which form the genus Zizania, which have edible grains and edible stems.
- The edible grain (the edible rice) which is harvested from these grasses.
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Synonyms
- (Zizania): Canada rice, Indian rice, water oats
Hyponyms
- (genus): annual wild rice (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.), Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), northern wild rice (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.), Texas wild rice (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
Translations
any species of Zizania
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Further reading
Zizania on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Zizania on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Zizania on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- wild rice at USDA Plants database