wild rice

Questions about wild rice

What does wild rice mean?

wild rice means "perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wild rice?

Close synonyms include Zizania aquatica, Indian rice. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wild rice a common word?

wild rice is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.