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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.

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)

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