CULTIVATED RICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cultivated rice mean? • CULTIVATED RICE (noun)
The noun CULTIVATED RICE has 1 sense:
1. yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population
Familiarity information: CULTIVATED RICE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CULTIVATED RICE (noun)
Meaning:
Yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
cultivated rice; Oryza sativa
Hypernyms ("cultivated rice" is a kind of...):
rice (annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper)
Meronyms (parts of "cultivated rice"):
rice (grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished)
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