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rice
 
Noun rice has 4 senses
  1. rice - grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
    --1 is a kind of     grain, food grain, cereal
    --1 is a part of cultivated rice, Oryza sativa
    --1 has particulars: brown rice; white rice, polished rice; paddy
    Derived form: verb rice1
  2. rice - annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
    --2 is a kind of     cereal, cereal grass
    --2 is a member of Oryza, genus Oryza
    --2 has substances: sake, saki, rice beer
    --2 has particulars: cultivated rice, Oryza sativa
  3. Rice, Sir Tim Rice, Timothy Miles Bindon Rice - English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)
    --3 is a kind of lyricist
  4. Rice, Elmer Rice, Elmer Leopold Rice, Elmer Reizenstein - United States playwright (1892-1967)
    --4 is a kind of dramatist, playwright
Verb rice has 1 sense
  1. rice - sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice; "rice the potatoes"
    --1 is one way to     sift, sieve, strain
    Derived forms: noun rice1, noun ricer1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
ricains ricarda ricardo riccardo rice-bowl rice-grain fritillary rice-growing rice-paper rice rice beer rice bran rice grass rice paddy rice paper rice rat rice weevil ricebird

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