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. Rice of any of four species of grasses which form the genus Zizania, which have edible grains and edible stems.
2. Edible grain (edible rice) harvested from these grasses.
3. Rice of species Oryza rufipogon

Hyponyms

• (Zizania spp.): annual wild rice, Canadian wild rice, Indian rice, water oats (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