wild rice

wild rice
noun
1. perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food
• Syn: ↑Zizania aquatica
• Hypernyms: ↑cereal, ↑cereal grass
• Member Holonyms: ↑Zizania, ↑genus Zizania
• Part Meronyms: ↑Indian rice
2. grains of aquatic grass of North America
• Syn: ↑Indian rice
• Hypernyms: ↑grain, ↑food grain, ↑cereal
• Part Holonyms: ↑Zizania aquatica

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noun
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

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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]

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wild rice noun see ↑zizania
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Main Entry: ↑wild

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wild rice UK US noun [uncountable]
the seed of a grass that grows in North America, eaten as a vegetable
Thesaurus: vegetableshyponym types of vegetablehypernym

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

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n. a tall aquatic North American grass related to rice, with edible grains. ● Zizania aquatica, family Gramineae
■ the grain of this plant used as food

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

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