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wild rice
noun
- a tall aquatic grass, Zizania aquatica, of northeastern North America.
- the grain of this plant, used for food.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wild rice1
First recorded in 1740–50
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Example Sentences
At last, early one morning, he found Dusky and his flock in the rushes and wild rice.
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From the bark of a birch tree he fashioned a canoe in which he rowed out upon the lake and gathered a quantity of the wild rice.
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He did not know the wild rice was useful for food, for he had never seen it before, but he admired its beauty.
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When the water was boiling the Musk-rat upset the kettle, which was found to be full of wild rice, upon which Ictinike feasted.
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Wild rice is an ideal nesting place for a colony of these little marsh wrens.
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