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Definitions of rice in various dictionaries:
noun - grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
noun - annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses
noun - English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)
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| Panasonic & Zojirushi make cookers of this grain that employ fuzzy logic |
| B.I.O.N., Texan David Pay has written over 300 alphabetic characters on a single grain of this! |
| A cup of this long or short grain, the primary food of half the world's pop., is cooked with 2 cups of water |
| Popular with nutritionists, the brown type of this is intentionally left unmilled |
| A noodle made from this grain is an ingredient in the traditional Thai dish mee krob |
| Beriberi was once a major problem in Asia because this grain was polished, removing vitamin B1 |
| The brown type of this still has its bran, so it's more nutritious than the white or the polished type |
| In Indonesia nasi goreng is the fried type of this staple grain |
| The Japonica type of this has less amylose & more amylopectin than other types, giving it the texture the Japanese like |
| Iowa State Univ.'s Entomology Club once added mealworms to this fried grain that's a staple in Asian restaurants |
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Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice). As a cereal grain, it is the most widely consumed staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in Asia. It is the agricultural commodity with the third-highest worldwide production (rice, 741.5 million tonnes in 2014), after sugarcane (1.9 billion tonnes) and maize (1.0 billion tonnes).* Since sizable portions of sugarcane and maize crops are used for purposes other than human consumption, rice is the most important grain with regard to human nutrition and caloric intake, providing more than one-fifth of the calories consumed worldwide by humans. There are many varieties of rice and culinary preferences tend to vary regionally. * * Rice, a monocot, is normally grown as an annual plant, although in tropical areas it can survive as a perennial and can produce a ratoon crop for up to 30 years. Rice cultivation is well-suited to countries and regions with low labor c |