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Indian rice

noun

  1. the wild rice plant.


Indian rice

noun

  1. an annual erect aquatic North American grass, Zizania aquatica, with edible purplish-black grain
  2. the grain of this plant
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Indian rice1

First recorded in 1815–25

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