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rice growing

rice growing adjective: rice-growing; which grows or is capable of growing rice.

Adjective

rice growing (not comparable)

  1. rice-growing; which grows or is capable of growing rice.
    • Among other kinds the Patna justly celebrated, but perhaps the most fertile province for rice-growing is Arracan, from whence great quantities of the grain are shipped to Europe from the port of Akyab, the importance of which is yearly increasing.1873, Heber Drury, s.v. “Oryza sativa”, The Useful Plants of India: With Notices of Their Chief Value in Commerce, Medicine, and the Arts, 2nd ed., London: William H. Allen, p 324

Noun

rice growing (uncountable)

  1. The growing of rice.

Forms of rice growing

alternative formrice-growing

Origin of rice growing

1873 rice-growing, rice + growing.

Questions about rice growing

What does rice growing mean?
Rice growing means rice-growing; which grows or is capable of growing rice.
What part of speech is rice growing?
Rice growing can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near rice growing in the dictionary

  1. rice flower
  2. rice flowers
  3. rice glue
  4. rice glues
  5. rice grass
  6. rice growing
  7. rice hat
  8. rice hen
  9. rice hens
  10. rice hull
  11. rice huller

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