rice
/ɹaɪs/ noun A1- Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
- A specific variety of this plant.
- The seeds of this plant used as food.
- The seeds of wild rice, used as food.
- The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
- An instance of customization of a user interface. · This is my first rice!
Plural rices
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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She’s going to show me a place back in the woods where rice lilies grow.
The boys, who had to wriggle hastily down from the trees, were later; and Anne, who had not been picking gum at all but was wandering happily in the far end of the grove, waist deep among the bracken, singing softly to herself, with a wreath of rice lilies on her hair as if she were some wild divinity of the shadowy places, was latest of all.
She started with the basics: how to chop an onion, cook rice and make a simple soup.
“We need milk, bread, apples, rice and cheese,” she says.
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