ZIZANIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Zizania mean? 

• ZIZANIA (noun)
  The noun ZIZANIA has 1 sense:

1. wild rice

  Familiarity information: ZIZANIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZIZANIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wild rice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Zizania; Zizania

Hypernyms ("Zizania" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Zizania"):

wild rice; Zizania aquatica (perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food)

Holonyms ("Zizania" is a member of...):

family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)