Usually means: Staple grain, consumed globally, versatile.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word rice:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. RICE, Rice, rice: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. RICE, rice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rice: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rice: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Rice, rice: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rice, rice: Wordnik
  7. rice: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. RICE, Rice, rice: Wiktionary
  9. rice: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rice: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rice: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. RICE, rice: Dictionary.com
  13. rice: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rice: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. RICE (chemotherapy), RICE (medicine), RICE, Rice (band), Rice (disambiguation), Rice (film), Rice (novel), Rice (surname), Rice, The Rice (Houston): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rice: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rice: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rice: Rhymezone
  19. rice: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rice: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. RICE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. rice: Free Dictionary
  23. rice: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Rice, rice: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Rice: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. rice: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rice: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Congo Cookbook (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Crop Abbreviations (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rice (crop), rice: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. RICE, Rice (crop): Medical dictionary
  3. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. RICE: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)
  3. Rice: HYPP Zoology
  4. RICE: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rice, rice: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. R.I.C.E: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
noun:  (countable) A specific variety of this plant.
noun:  (uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
noun:  (uncountable, slang, ethnic slur, humorous) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
noun:  (computing) An instance of customization of a user interface.
verb:  (transitive) To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
verb:  (intransitive) To harvest wild rice (Zizania sp.)
verb:  (rare) To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
verb:  (computing, transitive) To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment.
noun:  (now chiefly, dialectal, Scotland, Ireland) A twig or stick.
noun:  (weaving, obsolete) A bobbin or spool.
noun:  A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A former town in the Rice Valley, San Bernardino County, California.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Cloud County, Kansas.
noun:  A city in Benton County, Minnesota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Ohio.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Wasco County, Oregon, named after Horace Rice.
noun:  A minor city in Navarro County, Texas, named after William Marsh Rice.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Prince Edward County, Virginia.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington, named after William B. Rice.
noun:  A number of townships in the United States, listed under Rice Township.
noun:  (medicine) Acronym of rest, ice, compression, elevation: a treatment method for soft-tissue injuries. [(uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.]
noun:  (medicine) Acronym of rest, immobilization, cold, elevation: a treatment method for soft-tissue injuries. [(uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.]
noun:  (chemistry) Acronym of reaction, initial, change, equilibrium: a tabular system for keeping track of changing concentrations in an equilibrium reaction. [An action or statement in response to a stimulus or other event.]

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