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.

Made into or consisting of finely minced pieces resembling rice

simple past tense and past participle of rice

(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.)

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

plural of -rix

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rice

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