wild rice

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)

1. Any one of the four species of grasses which form the genus Zizania, which have edible grains and edible stems.
2. The edible grain (the edible rice) which is harvested from these grasses.
3. Oryza rufipogon

Synonyms

• (Zizania): 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

Catalan: arròs salvatge m Chinese: Mandarin: 菰属 (zh) (gūshǔ) Dakota: psiŋ Dutch: wilde rijst (nl) m Finnish: intiaaniriisi (fi), villiriisi French: riz sauvage (fr) m Galician: arroz salvaxe (gl) m German: Wasserreis m, Wildreis m Italian: riso selvaggio m Menominee: manōmaeh Ojibwe: manoomin Ottawa: mnoomin Polish: dziki ryż m Portuguese: arroz selvagem m Potawatomi: mnomen 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