Rice

/ɹaɪs/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
2. (countable) A specific variety of this plant.
3. (uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
4. (uncountable, slang, ethnic slur, humorous) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
5. (computing, slang) An instance of customization of a user interface.
6. (transitive) To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
7. (intransitive) To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)
8. (rare) To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).

Example Sentences

Rice is a tropical plant; yet Carolina and Georgia grow the finest in the world; heavier grained, better filled, and more merchantable, than any imported into Europe from the Indies.

Drought stress causes yield reductions and sometimes total crop failures in rainfed rice areas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Rice transformed with genes encoding human CYP1a1, CYP2B6, and CYP2C19 are more tolerant of various herbicides than non-transgenic rice plants, due to increased metabolism by the introduced P450 enzymes [Kawwahigashi et al. 2005a, 2007, 2008; James et al. 2008].

The rices of Kashmír are infinite in variety. In one tahsíl I have found fifty-three varieties.

First, we have the Italian rices; secondly, the rices of the French colonies of Indo-China and Madagascar, which are beginning to cultivate rices of very fine quality, altogether superior to those that were cultivated only a few years back.

For commercial purposes, the rices are classified according to the kernel length as short-grain, medium-grain, longgrain and long-slender-grain.

Mold boiled rice, when hot, in cups which have been previously dipped in cold water; when cold, turn them out on a flat dish, arranging them uniformly; then with a tea-spoon scoop out a little of the rice from the top of each cone, and put in its place any kind of jelly.

In Britain too rice is reputed to increase the sexual faculties.

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• rices
• ricing
• riced
• rise

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