rice

4 definitions • 4 examples

the small seeds of a particular type of grass, cooked, and eaten as food:

boiled/steamed/fried rice

long-grain rice

Do you prefer brown rice or white rice?

a grass that produces these seeds and grows in warm wet places

to separate food, especially cooked potatoes, into very small pieces that look like rice by forcing it through small holes in a special tool:

Peel, boil, and rice the potatoes.

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