/raɪs/
Translation
Small white or brown grains that people cook in water and eat as food.
Word origin
From Old French ris, from Latin oryza, from Greek oruza, a grain from the East.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- ris
Examples
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"Rice" is the small white grains we eat.
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Here "rice" is the food being cooked.
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"Rice" has no plural, so we say "much rice", not "many rices".
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