| 单词 | african rice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAfrican rice 2. More fully common rice, wet rice: the grass which produces this grain, Oryza sativa, cultivated since prehistoric times (originally in China and south Asia) and now grown, usually in standing water, throughout the warmer regions of the world; any of the numerous races and cultivated varieties of this plant. Later also (frequently with distinguishing word): any other plant of the genus Oryza, including O. glaberrima, cultivated in drier conditions, chiefly in Africa (more fully African rice, dry rice), and several species that are weeds of cultivated rice.miracle, mountain rice, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > rice > rice plant ricec1450 paddy1623 c1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Coventry) (1973) l. 2848 (MED) Of corne and ris grete plente There is growinge in þat cuntre. 1562 W. Turner Herball (1568) ii. 72 b Rys is to looke to lyke vnto Lolium or darnel. 1666 in S. Carolina Hist. Coll. (1858) II. 13 The Meadows are very proper for Rice. 1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon iii. 9 I have hitherto spoken of those Rices that require to grow in Water. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. Rice, the English name of a genus of plants, known among botanists by that of Oryza. 1790 T. Jefferson Let. 27 Nov. in Papers (1971) XVIII. 97 If the rice be as good as is said, it may take the place of the wet rice in the Southern states. 1829 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants 288 O. mutica, the dry or mountain rice, cultivated in Ceylon, Java, and of late in Hungary. 1842 C. Rockwell Sketches of Foreign Trav. II. xxiv. 265 There are three kinds of rice raised on the Western coast of Africa: the red African rice, the round-grained, and the large, white Carolina rice. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 826/1 The Common Rice is a marsh-plant. 1904 E. W. A. Pringle Woman Rice Planter 97 They plant a field of corn, a patch of rice, a patch of cotton, and one of tobacco. 1951 Indian Jrnl. Genetics & Plant Breeding 11 7 In the genus Oryza, to which the cultivated rices belong, is listed a varying number of species. 1976 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 275 145 The African rice (O. glaberrima) has its primary centre of diversity in the swampy area of the upper Niger River. 1985 J. W. Purseglove Trop. Crops: Monocotyledons 186 Wild red rice, Oryza rufipogon Griff... is the most serious weed of rice in many countries. 1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) vi. 69 By the first century ad, however, they were also farmers, specializing in the dry rice, oryza glaberrima. 2006 New Yorker 2 Oct. 71/2 In the wet season..the Malagasy planted rice, vanilla, or cassava. < as lemmas |
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