Indian rice


noun
  1. the wild rice plant.

Origin of Indian rice

1
First recorded in 1815–25

Words Nearby Indian rice

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British Dictionary definitions for Indian rice

Indian rice

noun
  1. an annual erect aquatic North American grass, Zizania aquatica, with edible purplish-black grain

  2. the grain of this plant

  • Also called: wild rice

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