rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: rices
Etymology: From Middle English rys, from Old French ris, from Old Italian riso, risi, from Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), from an Eastern Iranian language related to Middle Persian blnc (*brinǰ), Northern Kurdish riz (beyond Euphrates) and Zazaki riz. Theorized to come to Iranian languages from Sanskrit व्रीहि (vrīhi).
Prior to Sanskrit, it is speculated to be possibly a borrowing from a Dravidian language (compare Proto-Dravidian *wariñci (“rice”)), or from Austroasiatic languages further east.
Alternatively Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza) is said to be from Hebrew אורז (órez), from South Arabian areez ultimately from Old Tamil 𑀅𑀭𑀺𑀘𑀺 (arici).
Doublet of arroz.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1831, Daniel Jay Browne, The Naturalist, volume 1, page 375:
text: Drought stress causes yield reductions and sometimes total crop failures in rainfed rice areas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
ref: 1982, International Rice Research Institute, Drought Resistance in Crops with Emphasis on Rice:
text: 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].
ref: 2014, V. S. Rao, Transgenic Herbicide Resistance in Plants:
glosses: Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
examples: text: The rices of Kashmír are infinite in variety. In one tahsíl I have found fifty-three varieties.
ref: 1895, Sir Walter Roper Lawrence, The Valley of Kashmír:
text: 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.
ref: 1922 April 23, L. Humbert, “America Has Hard Competition in France”, in Rice Journal and Southern Farmer, volume 25, number 4:
text: For commercial purposes, the rices are classified according to the kernel length as short-grain, medium-grain, longgrain and long-slender-grain.
ref: 2000, R.K Singh, U.S. Singh, G.S. Khush, editors, Aromatic Rices:
glosses: A specific variety of this plant.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1881, Mary Foote Henderson, Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving:
text: In Britain too rice is reputed to increase the sexual faculties.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 207:
text: In sum, when a modern Japanese family and its members sit around the supper table eating their bowls of Japanese-grown rice, they are not simply indulging a gastronomic preference for short-grained and slightly sticky japonica rice over long-grained indica rice from Thailand.
ref: 1998, Noreen G. Dowling, Sustainability of Rice in the Global Food System:
text: On the festival day, rice is cooked together with this rice knot above.
ref: 2010, S. D. Sharma, Rice: Origin, Antiquity and History:
glosses: The seeds of this plant used as food.
glosses: The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
examples: text: This is my first rice!
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Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: Ambemohar
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: arborio
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: aromatic rice
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word: basmati
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: beaten rice
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word: Bhutanese red rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: black rice
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word: bora saul
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: brown rice
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word: Calrose rice
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word: Camargue red rice
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word: carnaroli
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: Champa rice
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word: chicken rice
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word: Chinese fermented rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: Chinese fermented sweet rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: Chinese sweet fermented rice
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word: chipped rice
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word: combination fried rice
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word: converted rice
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word: corn rice
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word: disco rice
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word: fermented glutinous rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: fermented rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: fermented sticky rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: fermented sweet rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: flattened rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: glutinous rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: golden rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: jasmine rice
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word: jungle rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: longevity rice
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word: Patna rice
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word: pounded rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: pressed rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: purple rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: red rice
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word: rice porridge
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: samba rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: scorched rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: sticky rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: sticky rice wine
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: sushi rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: sweet rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: sweet rice wine
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: Thai fermented rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: Thai fermented sweet rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: Thai sweet fermented rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: this this rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: two-dish rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: uncooked rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: unhusked rice
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word: Vietnamese fermented glutinous rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: Vietnamese fermented sticky rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: Vietnamese fermented sweet rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: waxy rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: white rice
sense: Hyponyms of rice (noun)
word: Yangzhou fried rice
Derived terms: ant rice
arborio rice
Arborio rice
artificial rice
baby rice
black rice
brewer's rice
brewers' rice
broken rice
brown rice
cauliflower rice
cheese and rice
claypot rice
cook-up rice
Coues' rice rat
dirty rice
economy rice
flattened rice
forbidden rice
French rice
fried rice
fried rice syndrome
glorified rice
golden rice
Hainanese chicken rice
hanging rice
hom mali rice
hungry rice
Indian rice
iron rice bowl
Italian rice ball
Japanese rice ball
jollof rice
like white on rice
longevity rice
long rice
Manchurian wild rice
mealie rice
Mexican rice
mountain rice
northern wild rice
oily rice
omu-rice
omu rice
Patna rice
peas and rice
polished rice
pudding rice
puffed rice
purple rice
red yeast rice
rice and peas
rice bag
rice ball
rice bean
ricebird
rice biscuit
rice blast
rice bowl
rice box
rice burner
rice cake
rice car
ricecel
rice chaser
rice Christian
rice congee
rice cooker
rice-cracker
rice cracker
rice cutgrass
rice eater
rice-eater
rice field
rice flakes
rice flour
rice flower
rice glue
rice grass
rice growing
rice hat
rice hen
rice hull
rice huller
rice husk
rice husker
rice king
rice leafhopper
rice malt
rice milk
rice mill
rice-mill
rice moth
rice nigger
rice noodle
rice out
rice paddle
rice paddy
rice paddy herb
rice paper
rice-paper plant
rice pounder
rice pudding
rice-queen
rice queen
ricer
rice rat
rice rocket
rice sheath mite
rice shell
rice-spirit
rice stick
rice stitch
rice swift
rice tenrec
rice vinegar
rice water
rice weevil
rice wine
Spanish rice
special fried rice
sticky rice
sweet fermented rice
taco rice
thunder tea rice
white on rice
white rice
wild rice