1. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
   "We served steamed rice as a side dish with our curry"
    
2. Annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
   "Rice is a staple food for over half of the world's population"

1. (cooking) sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice
   "rice the potatoes"

1. English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)
   - Sir Tim Rice, Timothy Miles Bindon Rice
    
2. United States playwright (1892-1967)
   - Elmer Rice, Elmer Leopold Rice, Elmer Reizenstein

Derived forms: ricing, rices, riced

Type of: cereal, cereal grass, dramatist, food grain, grain, lyricist, lyrist, playwright, sieve, sift, starches, strain

Part of: cultivated rice, genus Oryza, Oryza, Oryza sativa

Encyclopedia: Rice, Paul