rice

Noun
  1. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished (synset 107820299)
    hypernym:
    • starches - foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread)
    • cereal, food grain, grain - foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
    hyponym:
    • brown rice - unpolished rice retaining the yellowish-brown outer layer
    • polished rice, white rice - having husk or outer brown layers removed
    • paddy - rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field
    part meronym: cultivated rice, oryza sativa - yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population
  2. Annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses;
    Seed used for food;
    Straw used for paper (synset 112146407)
    hypernym: cereal, cereal grass - grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
    hyponym: cultivated rice, oryza sativa - yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population
    member meronym: genus oryza, oryza - rice
    substance holonym: rice beer, sake, saki - Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot
  3. English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944) (synset 111279767)
    instance hypernym: lyricist, lyrist - a person who writes the words for songs
    synonym: sir tim rice, timothy miles bindon rice
  4. United States playwright (1892-1967) (synset 111279625)
    instance hypernym: dramatist, playwright - someone who writes plays
    synonym: elmer leopold rice, elmer reizenstein, elmer rice
Verb
  1. Sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice (synset 201463037)
    "rice the potatoes"
    domain category: cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
    hypernym: sieve, sift, strain - separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements

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