| 单词 | indian rice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIndian rice Indian rice n. (a) any of several kinds of North American wild rice (genus Zizania); esp. Z. aquatica, which grows in shallow water and was formerly an important food source (also called water oats); (b) a North American bunch grass, Oryzopsis hymenoides (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > rice > types of rice or rice-plants fundi1670 ricea1710 wild rice1748 zizania1756 zizany1759 water oats1771 Canada rice1786 Carolina rice1787 menomin1791 Patna rice1795 Indian rice1809 pulut1820 dhan1832 hungry rice1858 swamp rice1861 Menominee1949 miracle rice1968 1809 in Hudson's Bay Misc. (1975) 113 We had nothing but the part of the few fish that we caught ourselves and a little Indian rice. 1861 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 14 229 On the borders of the lakes and rivers, the Indian rice (Zizania aquatica) is abundant, the grain of which, along with fish, forms the principal food of the Salteau Indians. 1923 L. Carrier Beginnings Agric. in Amer. iv. 27 Indian rice (Zizania sp.). 1933 E. C. Jaeger Calif. Deserts xiii. 165 Indian rice (Oryzopsis hymenoides) is frequent in porous soils, particularly on blown sand. 1998 D. Larkin & S. E. Larkin Country Wild 115/2 Also called ‘Indian rice’, wild rice is really an aquatic grass that grows from five to ten feet tall in pure water along the margins of streams. < as lemmas |
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