plural of rice (Referring to more than one strain or variety of rice. Rice is usually uncountable.)

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rice

plural of -rix

(uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food. / (countable) A specific variety of this plant. / (uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.

(now chiefly, dialectal, Scotland, Ireland) A twig or stick. / (weaving, obsolete) A bobbin or spool.

(transitive) To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes). / (intransitive) To harvest wild rice (Zizania sp.)

A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic]. / A former town in the Rice Valley, San Bernardino County, California. / An unincorporated community in Cloud County, Kansas.

(medicine) Initialism of rest, ice, compression, elevation: a treatment method for soft-tissue injuries.

(soap-making) (Development of) undesirable, hard white granules in soap.

simple past tense and past participle of rice