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Indian rice

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noun
  1. the wild rice plant.
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Origin of Indian rice

First recorded in 1815–25
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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
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Also called: wild rice
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