wild rice
English

wild rice growing in the Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge

a bowl of cooked wild rice
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.
- Oryza rufipogon
Synonyms
- (Zizania): Canada rice, Indian rice, water oats
Hyponyms
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
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