wild rice

noun

1. a tall aquatic grass, Zizania aquatica, of northeastern North America.
2. the grain of this plant, used for food.

wild rice

noun

1. another name for Indian rice

Word History and Origins

Origin of wild rice¹

First recorded in 1740–50

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.

From Eater

It was a wild rice pudding that I made with sunflower milk that I made myself.

From Eater

Should you not be able to find farro, barley would make a good substitute, or perhaps even brown or wild rice.

From Washington Post

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.

From Ozy

At last, early one morning, he found Dusky and his flock in the rushes and wild rice.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

He did not know the wild rice was useful for food, for he had never seen it before, but he admired its beauty.

From Project Gutenberg

When the water was boiling the Musk-rat upset the kettle, which was found to be full of wild rice, upon which Ictinike feasted.

From Project Gutenberg

Wild rice is an ideal nesting place for a colony of these little marsh wrens.

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Related Words

• brown rice