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folle avoine Cdn French 
See wild rice.
See also: wild rice
- 1800 (1897) A few miles above . . . is Riviere a la Folle Avoine (Wild Rice River), navigable for small Indian canoes.
- 1852 In 1847 multitudes of caterpillars . . . destroyed the folle avoine on Rainy Lake, but left untouched some wheat that was just coming into ear.
- 1890 Folle avoine was often substituted for Indian corn.
- 1963 Among the lakes noted for wild rice was Rice Lake, known in the French period as Folle Avoine (wild oats), the two plants being quite similar.
- 1800 (1897) A few miles above . . . is Riviere a la Folle Avoine (Wild Rice River), navigable for small Indian canoes.