单词 | menomin |
释义 | menominn. North American. rare. A name originally used by Ojibwa Indians and also occasionally more widely (esp. in Canada) for: wild rice, Zizania aquatica, or its seeds. 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 1744 A. Dobbs Acct. Countries adjoining Hudson's Bay 62 Above them [is] a small Lake called Malominis; upon the Sides of it grows a Kind of wild Oats, from which the Natives get plentiful Crops.] 1791 J. Long Voy. Indian Interpreter 117 We were reduced to a few fish and some wild rice, or menomon (which are kept in muccucks, or bark boxes). 1945 Nature Mag. Nov. 466 Not to the Menominee alone was menomin of great value, but to all the tribes of the wild rice country. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1791 |
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