Any one of the four species of grasses which form the genus Zizania, which have edible grains and edible stems. / The edible grain (the edible rice) which is harvested from these grasses.

plural of wild rice

A cereal grass that grows mostly in China, whose stem is eaten as a vegetable; Zizania latifolia.

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