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Meaning of rice

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  rice
      n 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
      3: English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd
         Webber (born in 1944) [syn: {Rice}, {Sir Tim Rice}, {Timothy
         Miles Bindon Rice}]
      4: United States playwright (1892-1967) [syn: {Rice}, {Elmer
         Rice}, {Elmer Leopold Rice}, {Elmer Reizenstein}]
      v 1: sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice; "rice the
           potatoes"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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