How to pronounce“rice”in English
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Definitions of “rice”
Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
“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.”
A specific variety of this plant.
“The rices of Kashmír are infinite in variety. In one tahsíl I have found fifty-three varieties.”
To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
“Riced Potato. Have a flat dish and the colander hot. With a spoon, rub mashed potato through the colander on to the hot dish.”
To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)
“In northern Minnesota the whites have invented the verb "to rice," and speak of "ricing," i. e., harvesting the crop of wild rice.”