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rice
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[ noun ] (food) grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
Used in print (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)Quite candidly , fellows , I would n't be_in_your_shoes for all the rice in China . `` I would n't be_in_his_shoes for all the rice in China . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (botany) annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
Used in print (Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)Practically all the people of Laos , he explained - about two million of them - are rice farmers , and the means and motives of modern war are as strange to them as clocks and steel plows . Then we drove on , until there was no more road and we traversed dry rice fields , bouncing across their squat earth walls . Then came coconuts , eggs , and rice wine . The preparations were elaborate : flowers , candles , incense sticks , rice wine , dozens of delicacies , and pieces of white cotton string . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 146
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[ noun ] (writing) English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)
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[ noun ] (theater,writing) United States playwright (1892-1967)
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