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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.
wild rice
Word History and Origins
Origin of wild rice1
Example Sentences
In South Dakota, Fong took cues from the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota tribes, and constructed a rice pudding pie, the pudding made with wild rice, fortified with homemade sunflower milk.
It was a wild rice pudding that I made with sunflower milk that I made myself.
Should you not be able to find farro, barley would make a good substitute, or perhaps even brown or wild rice.
Elsa Food Mart, the Ethiopian market there, is a small, cramped bodega with shelves stuffed with reminders of home, like decorative plates and bags of wild rice.
At last, early one morning, he found Dusky and his flock in the rushes and wild rice.
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.
He did not know the wild rice was useful for food, for he had never seen it before, but he admired its beauty.
When the water was boiling the Musk-rat upset the kettle, which was found to be full of wild rice, upon which Ictinike feasted.
Wild rice is an ideal nesting place for a colony of these little marsh wrens.
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