Indian rice

noun

the wild rice plant.

Origin of Indian rice

First recorded in 1815–25

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British Dictionary definitions for indian rice

Indian rice

noun

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

the grain of this plant

Also called: wild rice

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