Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of grasses, of the tribe Oryzeæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of grasses including Indian rice. See Indian rice, under
rice .
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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thetribe Oryzeae —wild rice (zizania ).
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- noun wild rice
Etymologies
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In the old translation of the Bible, the Zizania, which is now translated Tares, was sometime translated Cockle, [78: 1] and
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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See index to this volume; also, "Zizania," or Canada rice.
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Though the English term for what the native people of the Minnesota call "Manoomin" is wild rice, it is actually not rice (Oryza sativa) but rather the seed of an aquatic grass (Zizania palustris) and is related to corn.
Kurt Michael Friese: Truly Wild Wild Rice Kurt Michael Friese 2010
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Though the English term for what the native people of the Minnesota call "Manoomin" is wild rice, it is actually not rice (Oryza sativa) but rather the seed of an aquatic grass (Zizania palustris) and is related to corn.
Kurt Michael Friese: Truly Wild Wild Rice Kurt Michael Friese 2010
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Though the English term for what the native people of the Minnesota call "Manoomin" is wild rice, it is actually not rice (Oryza sativa) but rather the seed of an aquatic grass (Zizania palustris) and is related to corn.
Kurt Michael Friese: Truly Wild Wild Rice Kurt Michael Friese 2010
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Though the English term for what the native people of the Minnesota call "Manoomin" is wild rice, it is actually not rice (Oryza sativa) but rather the seed of an aquatic grass (Zizania palustris) and is related to corn.
Kurt Michael Friese: Truly Wild Wild Rice Kurt Michael Friese 2010
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Though the English term for what the native people of the Minnesota call "Manoomin" is wild rice, it is actually not rice (Oryza sativa) but rather the seed of an aquatic grass (Zizania palustris) and is related to corn.
Kurt Michael Friese: Truly Wild Wild Rice Kurt Michael Friese 2010
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Researchers at Jug Bay have been tracking the loss and recovery of an emergent aquatic vegetation (EAV) species, Zizania aquatica, which was declining due to grazing by resident Canada geese.
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland 2007
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Zizania palustris is a native of the upper midwestern Great Lakes region of North America, where it grows in shallow lakes and marshes and was gathered in canoes by the Ojibway and other native peoples.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Zizania latifolia and Ustilago esculenta, a grass-fungus association.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
hernesheir commented on the word Zizania
Wild grass genus that is the source of wild rice.
February 8, 2010