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menominee † [< Algonk.: Ojibwa. See 1907 quote] 
n. See wild rice 1963 quote.
See also: wild rice
- 1744 [Above them [is] a small Lake called Malominis; upon the Sides of it grows a Kind of wild Oats, from which the Natives get plentiful Crops.]
- 1779 (1791) We were reduced to a few fish and some wild rice, or menomen (which are kept in muccucks, or bark boxes), to support myself and seventeen men.
- 1905 [The last-named people are the Folles Avoines of the French narratives, and their river, still called the Menominee, reaches far into the rice-producing region.]
- 1907 [Menominee (meno, by change from mino, "good," "beneficent"; min, a "grain," "seed") the Chippewa name for the wild rice.]
- 1744 [Above them [is] a small Lake called Malominis; upon the Sides of it grows a Kind of wild Oats, from which the Natives get plentiful Crops.]