单词 | water oats |
释义 | > as lemmaswater oats water oats n. wild rice (genus Zizania) (see rice n.2 3a). 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 1771 J. R. Forster Catal. Plants N. Amer. in tr. J. B. Bossu Trav. Louisiana II. 59 Water-oats..grows in swamps. 1819 D. B. Warden Acc. U.S. II. 538 Water oats, or wild rice (Zizania aquatica) grows in the soft marshes of the eastern parts [of Louisiana]. 1919 Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 29 241 In the shallow water of the numerous small lakes throughout the Great Lake region..grows the water oats or Indian rice. 2004 M. H. Wong Wetlands Ecosystems Asia 205 The yearly productivity for vascular hydrophytes is about 450,000 t[onnes], among which reeds are over 70,000 t, water oats (Zizania latifolia), about 225,000 t, and submerged hydrophytes 147,000 t. < as lemmas |
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