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Zizania aquatica

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Noun1.Zizania aquatica - perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food
wild rice
Indian rice, wild rice - grains of aquatic grass of North America
cereal, cereal grass - grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
genus Zizania, Zizania - wild rice
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Byline: Natalie Haughton Food Editor Those shiny, deep, dark brown grains known as wild rice - sometimes referred to as the ``caviar of grains'' - are technically not rice at all, but the seeds of an aquatic grass known as Zizania Aquatica.
CALL OF THE WILD RICE CALIFORNIA GROWERS MAKING ONCE-EXOTIC GRAIN ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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