OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2135

rice

/ɹaɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
arroz
Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
Drought stress causes yield reductions and sometimes total crop failures in rainfed rice areas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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 Indie…
arroz
The seeds of this plant used as food.
In Britain too rice is reputed to increase the sexual faculties.
Mold boiled rice, when hot, in cups which have been previously dipped in cold water; when cold, turn them out on a flat dish, arranging them uniformly; then with a tea-spoon scoop…
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