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DEFINITIONS OF: rice

1

n annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper

Types:
Oryza sativa, cultivated rice
yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population
Type of:
cereal, cereal grass
grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet

n grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished

Types:
brown rice
unpolished rice retaining the yellowish-brown outer layer
polished rice, white rice
having husk or outer brown layers removed
paddy
rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field
Type of:
starches
foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread)
cereal, food grain, grain
foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

v sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice

“rice the potatoes”
Type of:
sieve, sift, strain
separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
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