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1. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
    
2. Annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper

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

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

Derived forms: rices, ricing, 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 North