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Definition of rice noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

rice

noun
 
/raɪs/
 
/raɪs/
[uncountable]
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  1. short, narrow white or brown grain grown on wet land in hot countries as food; the plant that produces this grain
    • a grain of rice
    • boiled/steamed/fried rice
    • long-/short-grain rice
    • sticky/basmati/wild rice
    • brown rice (= without its outer layer removed)
    • rice paddies (= rice fields)
    • a spicy rice dish
    • rice flour/noodles/cakes
    • There is no need to keep the rice field flooded.
    • The dish is served with rice.
    see also chicken rice, fried rice, jollof rice, parched rice, sticky riceTopics Fooda1, Farminga1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • brown
    • red
    • white
    … of rice
    • grain
    • bag
    • sack
    verb + rice
    • cultivate
    • grow
    • produce
    rice + noun
    • crop
    • production
    • farmer
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    Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French ris, from Italian riso, from Greek oruza.
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