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More fully common rice, wet rice: the grass which produces this grain, Oryza sativa, cultivated since prehistoric times (originally in China and…
Now frequently in form padi. Rough or unhusked rice (Oryza sativa), either as a growing crop or when harvested but not yet threshed.