wild rice

Example Sentences

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On the menu: quail stuffed with wild rice and white grapes.

From Washington Post

This past Christmas, after my mom sent me off with bags of wild rice and bottles of maple syrup, I returned to D.C. with renewed homesickness.

From Washington Post

Maccabee said the water quality permit issued to PolyMet won’t protect humans, fish and other aquatic life, and wild rice that grows in downstream waters, from the harmful effects of mercury and sulfate discharges.

From Seattle Times

Those threats make it crucial to teach young band members to harvest wild rice respecting both rituals and the environment.

From Seattle Times

Algonquins in the northeastern United States called it the corn moon, “as this was the time for gathering their main staple crops of corn, pumpkins, squash, beans and wild rice,” according to NASA.

From New York Times