rice
Other forms: riced; rices; ricing
Rice is a kind of plant, as well as the grain that comes from it. At some Chinese restaurants, you get a choice between white rice and brown rice.
White rice is processed or "polished," so the outer germ is removed — it's a staple of Chinese and Indian cuisine, among others. There are many varieties of rice, defined by the color and length of the individual grain. When rice is a verb, it means "force through a sieve," or in other words, to take something like a potato and make it look like rice. We can trace the origin of rice back to the Sanskrit vrihi-s.
Definitions of rice
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annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
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types:
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Oryza sativa, cultivated rice
yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population
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type of:
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cereal, cereal grass
grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
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Oryza sativa, cultivated rice
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grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
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types:
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brown rice
unpolished rice retaining the yellowish-brown outer layer
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polished rice, white rice
having husk or outer brown layers removed
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paddy
rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field
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type of:
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starches
foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread)
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cereal, food grain, grain
foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
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brown rice
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sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice
Pronunciation
US
/raɪs/
UK
/raɪs/
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