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1. perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food

2. grains of aquatic grass of North America

1.

a. : a tall aquatic No. American perennial grass (Zizania aquatica) with panicles bearing pistillate flowers above and staminate below and grain that is used for food formerly especially by the Indians and now also gathered and marketed

b. : an Asiatic grass (Z. latifolia) resembling No. American wild rice

2. : shama millet

1. a tall aquatic grass, Zizania aquatica, of northeastern North America.

2. the grain of this plant, used for food. Also called water oats, water rice.

[1740-50]

wild rice noun see ↑zizania

Main Entry: ↑wild

wild rice UK US noun [uncountable]

the seed of a grass that grows in North America, eaten as a vegetable

Thesaurus: vegetables_hyponym types of vegetable_hypernym

wild rice,

a North American aquatic grass, whose grain is used for food.

n. a tall aquatic North American grass related to rice, with edible grains. ● Zizania aquatica, family Gramineae

noun [noncount]

: a kind of grain that is produced by a tall North American plant that grows in water