northern wild rice

English

Ojibwes harvesting northern wild rice

Noun

northern wild rice (uncountable)

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

Synonyms

• (Zizania palustris): Indian rice, Canada rice

Translations

Zizania palustris

• Basque: basa arroz
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沼生菰 (zhǎoshēnggū)

• Dutch: wilde rijst (nl) n
• Finnish: intiaaniriisi (fi)
• French: riz sauvage (fr) m
• Galician: arroz salvaxe (gl) m
• German: Wasserreis m
• Hungarian: vadrizs (hu)
• Ojibwe: manoomin
• Russian: цица́ния (ru) f (cicánija)
• Spanish: arroz indígena m

Further reading

• Zizania (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Zizania palustris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Zizania palustris on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Zizania palustris at USDA Plants database