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rice

  • noun
  • /ɹaɪs/

Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.

Other meanings

  1. A specific variety of this plant.

  2. The seeds of this plant used as food.

A kind of

  • grain

Kinds of rice

  • brown rice
  • white rice

Example sentences

  • “Beans, rice, and legumes are cheaper than meat.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

  • “I live on beans and rice.”

    Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · CC0

Word history

From Old French "ris".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “rice” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.