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northern wild rice

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Wild rice of the species Zizania palustris, native to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and Canada north and west of the Great Lakes.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

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  • Basque: basa arroz — Zizania palustris
  • Chinese Mandarin: 沼生菰 (zhǎoshēnggū) — Zizania palustris
  • Dutch: wilde rijst — Zizania palustris
  • Finnish: intiaaniriisi — Zizania palustris
  • French: riz sauvage — Zizania palustris
  • Galician: arroz salvaxe — Zizania palustris
  • German: Wasserreis — Zizania palustris
  • Hungarian: vadrizs — Zizania palustris
  • Ojibwe: manoomin — Zizania palustris
  • Polish: zizania północna — Zizania palustris
  • Russian: цица́ния (cicánija) — Zizania palustris
  • Spanish: arroz indígena — Zizania palustris