rice¹ /rīs/

1. A grass (Oryza sativa) grown in warm climates, usu in flooded paddy-fields
2. Its grain, an important cereal food

To form soft food, esp cooked potatoes, into strands by passing through a ricer, sieve, etc

rīcˈer noun (esp N American)

A kitchen utensil used for ricing food

riceˈy or riˈcy adjective

rice beer noun

A fermented drink made from rice

riceˈbird noun

1. The bobolink (as a feeder on true rice or so-called wild rice)
2. The paddy bird or Java sparrow

rice biscuit noun

A sweet biscuit made of flour mixed with rice

rice bowl noun

1. A small dish for eating rice
2. A fertile area that produces large quantities of rice

rice cake noun

A light, usu round cake made from puffed rice grains, eaten alone or spread with other foods

rice crispies or Rice Krispies® plural noun

Puffed grains of rice, eaten esp as breakfast cereal

rice field noun

rice flour noun

rice glue noun

A cement made by boiling rice flour in soft water

rice grain noun

1. A marking like a grain of rice on the sun's photosphere
2. A decoration in pottery made by pressing rice or other seeds into the clay before firing

rice grass noun

Cord grass

rice milk noun

Milk boiled and thickened with rice

rice paper noun

1. Sliced and flattened edible pith of an Asiatic tree of the Araliaceae
2. A similar material made from other plants, or from linen trimmings

rice polishings plural noun

The parts rubbed off in milling rice

rice pudding noun

rice soup noun

rice water noun

1. An invalid's drink of water in which rice has been boiled
2. A cholera patient's evacuation, of similar appearance

Canada, Indian, water or wild rice see zizania

rice² or reis /rīs/ (obsolete except dialect)

1. Twigs or small branches collectively, brushwood
2. A twig or small branch

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