English to English
rice
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noun (n)
- grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished(noun.food)source: wordnet30
- annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper(noun.plant)source: wordnet30
- English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)(noun.person)source: wordnet30
- United States playwright (1892-1967)(noun.person)source: wordnet30
- A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed.(noun)source: webster1913
verb (v)
- sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice(verb.contact)Example:
Rice the potatoes.
source: wordnet30