wild rice

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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. A specific type of rice known as Oryza rufipogon

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