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brown rice

brown rice noun: rice with the brownish hull not polished off as in white rice. The hull contains important vitamins, including vitamin B complex, which are missing in white rice.

Noun

brown rice (usually uncountable, plural brown rices)

  1. (usually) Rice with the brownish hull not polished off as in white rice. The hull contains important vitamins, including vitamin B complex, which are missing in white rice.
    • As an unabashed health nut, she always asked for brown rice to go with her vegetarian entrees.

brown rice meaning in Tamil, Tagalog, Indonesian and Thai

brown rice in Tamil

தீட்டாத அரிசி

brown rice in Tagalog

unpolished rice
kaning kayumanggi

brown rice in Indonesian

unpolished rice
beras merah, nasi merah

brown rice in Thai

unpolished rice
ข้าวกล้อง kâao-glɔ̂ng
More languagesFewer languages
brown rice in Vietnamese
gạo lứt

Forms of brown rice

pluralbrown rices

Questions about brown rice

What does brown rice mean?
Brown rice means rice with the brownish hull not polished off as in white rice. The hull contains important vitamins, including vitamin B complex, which are missing in white rice.
What is brown rice in Tamil?
Brown rice in Tamil is தீட்டாத அரிசி. See Brown rice meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is brown rice?
Brown rice is a noun.
What is the plural of brown rice?
The plural of brown rice is brown rices.

Words near brown rice in the dictionary

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  2. brown recluse
  3. brown recluse spider
  4. brown recluse spiders
  5. brown recluses
  6. brown rice
  7. brown rices
  8. brown rock chat
  9. brown rosin paper
  10. brown rot
  11. brown sahib

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brown rice (page history and authors); brown rice (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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