rice

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɹaɪs/

Noun

uncountable countable ethnic humorous slang slur

(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.

Japanese Meaning

稲：Oryza sativaなどの稲作植物そのものを指す（植物としての意味、通常は不可算名詞として用いられる）。 / 米：その種子、すなわち食用にされる穀物としての意味（こちらも通常は不可算名詞として用いられる）。 / 特定の品種の稲：場合によっては、特定の品種を指す際に可算名詞として用いられる。

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After the harvest, they stored the rice in a cool, dry granary.

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収穫後、彼らは米を涼しく乾燥した穀倉に保管した。

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Sense（1）

(uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.

Rice is a tropical plant; yet Carolina and Georgia grow the finest in the world; heavier grained, better filled, and more merchantable, than any imported into Europe from the Indies.

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Sense（2）

(countable) A specific variety of this plant.

The rices of Kashmír are infinite in variety. In one tahsíl I have found fifty-three varieties.

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Sense（3）

(uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.

Mold boiled rice, when hot, in cups which have been previously dipped in cold water; when cold, turn them out on a flat dish, arranging them uniformly; then with a tea-spoon scoop out a little of the rice from the top of each cone, and put in its place any kind of jelly.

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Sense（4）

(uncountable, slang, ethnic slur, humorous) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.

rices

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