What does the word rice mean?
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The grain of Oryza sativa, the rice- plant, used for food, and also when finely pulverized as a dusting powder.
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See Oryza.
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The Oryza sativa, a plant of the Gramineae; also its hulled grain( Oryza). It consists largely of starch( R. starch), which occurs in very small polygonal granules. A nutritious food, and used also as a dusting-powder( Oryzae farina).
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Oryza-r. Disease, Cholera-r. Ground, see Oryza-r. Jelly, see Oryza.
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Usage examples for rice
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From Choombi to Lhassa is fifteen days' long journeys for a man mounted on a stout mule; all the rice passing through Phari is monopolised there for the Chinese troops at Lhassa. – Himalayan Journals V2. by J. D. Hooker
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" With what shall we cut gondla grass, and with what shall we cut rice? – The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by R. V. Russell
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What change in quantity takes place in the rice during long cooking? – School and Home Cooking by Carlotta C. Greer
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