[U] short, narrow white or brown grain grown on wet land in hot countries as food; the plant that produces this grain:
a grain of rice * boiled / steamed / fried rice * long- / short-grain rice * brown rice (= without its outer covering removed) * rice paddies (= rice fields)
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for rice is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is rice a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, rice is tagged as noun.
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