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.

Synonyms

Canada rice, Indian rice, water oats

Hyponyms

(genus): annual wild rice (Zizania aquatica), Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), northern wild rice (Zizania palustris), Texas wild rice (Zizania texana)

Translations

any species of Zizania

Chinese:
Mandarin: 菰属 (zh) (gūshǔ)
Dakota: psiŋ
Dutch: wilde rijst m
Finnish: intiaaniriisi (fi), villiriisi
French: riz sauvage (fr) m
Galician: arroz salvaxe (gl) m
German: Wasserreis m, Wildreis m

Italian: riso selvatico m
Ojibwe: manoomin
Polish: dziki ryż m
Portuguese: arroz selvagem m
Russian: водяно́й рис m (vodjanój ris)
Spanish: arroz salvaje m
Swedish: vildris n

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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