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rice paper

rice paper noun: a thin, fragile paper made from parts of the rice plant, used in artificial flowers and watercolour art.

rice paper: a thin, fragile paper made from parts of the rice plant, used in artificial flowers and watercolour...
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Noun

rice paper (usually uncountable, plural rice papers)

  1. (usually) A thin, fragile paper made from parts of the rice plant, used in artificial flowers and watercolour art.
    • I will scatter rice paper stars in your heaven
      If there are no stars ...
      If there are no stars ...1990, Ultraviolet, “Kites”, performed by Maria Nayler
  2. (broadly, usually) Any similar paper made from a plant other than rice, such as bamboo or mulberry.
  3. (usually) Edible sheets of rice often used in Vietnamese cooking; bánh tráng.

rice paper meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese

rice paper in Tamil

மரஉரி தாள்

rice paper in Vietnamese

paper made from parts of the rice plant
bánh tráng

Forms of rice paper

pluralrice papers

Words formed from rice paper

Questions about rice paper

What does rice paper mean?
Rice paper means a thin, fragile paper made from parts of the rice plant, used in artificial flowers and watercolour art.
What is rice paper in Tamil?
Rice paper in Tamil is மரஉரி தாள். See Rice paper meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rice paper?
Rice paper is a noun.
What is the plural of rice paper?
The plural of rice paper is rice papers.

Words near rice paper in the dictionary

  1. rice paddle
  2. rice paddles
  3. rice paddy
  4. rice paddy herb
  5. rice paddy herbs
  6. rice paper
  7. rice papers
  8. rice porridge
  9. rice pounder
  10. rice pounders
  11. rice pudding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rice paper (page history and authors); rice paper (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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