0 the small seeds of a particular type of grass, cooked, and eaten as food:
1 to separate food, especially cooked potatoes, into very small pieces that look like rice by forcing it through small holes in a special tool:
2 the small brown or white seeds produced by a grass plant that are a major food source in many countries, or the plant itself, which is grown in warm, wet places
It's a simple dish to prepare, consisting mainly of rice and vegetables.
Truckloads of rice have been brought in to the areas affected by drought.
There are two rices which are chiefly concerned in this matter.
In 1997, a rice crop was grown without any treatment application to test for residual effects.
Transplanted rice undergoes two more growth processes than does the directly seeded rice, nursery growth and transplanting shock.
