rices

Noun

rice (countable and uncountable, plural rices)

1. (uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
   • Rice is a tropical plant; yet Carolina and Georgia grow the finest in the world; heavier grained, better filled, and more merchantable, than any imported into Europe from the Indies.1831, Daniel Jay Browne, The Naturalist, volume 1, page 375
2. (countable) A specific variety of this plant.
   • The rices of Kashmír are infinite in variety. In one tahsíl I have found fifty-three varieties.1895, Sir Walter Roper Lawrence, The Valley of Kashmír
3. (uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
   • Mold boiled rice, when hot, in cups which have been previously dipped in cold water; when cold, turn them out on a flat dish, arranging them uniformly; then with a tea-spoon scoop out a little of the rice from the top of each cone, and put in its place any kind of jelly.1881, Mary Foote Henderson, Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving
   1. The seeds of wild rice, used as food.
      • We shoot bows and arrows. We hunt, fish, paddle canoes, have war dances, ride horses, run, jump, gather rice, gather berries, throw spears, rock cradles, worship the Great Spirit, grind corn, have council meetings, and perform dozens of other activities that Indians do.1933, Roy J. McMurray, The Journal of Health and Physical Education, volume 4, number October 1933, page 48
4. (ethnic, humorous, slang, slur, uncountable) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
5. (slang) An instance of customization of a user interface.
   • This is my first rice!

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