Definition of Rice

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Definition of Rice

Rice

A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed.

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Rice Quotations

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
Mitch Hedberg

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.
Henny Youngman

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
Dave Barry

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago.
Norman Borlaug

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.
Steve Irwin

Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.
Arsene Wenger

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.
Reese Witherspoon

During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.
Patrick Stewart

President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm.
Jo Bonner

You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.
Lee H. Hamilton

Rice Translations

rice in Afrikaans is rys
rice in Danish is ris
rice in Dutch is rijst
rice in Finnish is riisi
rice in French is riz, scion
rice in German is Reis
rice in Hungarian is rizs
rice in Italian is riso
rice in Latin is oryza
rice in Norwegian is ris
rice in Portuguese is arroz
rice in Spanish is arroz
rice in Swedish is risgryn, ris

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