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ricy

ricy is the alternative form of ricey.

Meaning of ricey

Adjective

ricey (comparative more ricey, superlative most ricey)

  1. Containing rice.
    • Nor may the fleeteſt hawk, untired, explore / Where end the ricey groves that crown the ſhore.1776, Luis de Camoëns, translated by William Julius Mickle, The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India. An Epic Poem., Oxford: Jackson and Lister, page 463
  2. Resembling or characteristic of rice.
    • After some time they diminish in quantity, and present, in addition to the watery and ricey portions, some mucus, which still later becomes sanguineous, but is still accompanied by ricey and watery portions.1854, B[enjamin] F[ranklin] Joslin, “Symptoms and Treatment of the Varieties of Cholera”, in Homœopathic Treatment of Epidemic Cholera, 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: William Radde, page 124

Forms of ricy

comparativemore ricy
superlativemost ricy

Questions about ricy

What is ricy the alternative form of?
Ricy is the alternative form of ricey.

Words near ricy in the dictionary

  1. ricracs
  2. RICS
  3. rictal
  4. rictus
  5. rictuses
  6. ricy
  7. Ricœur
  8. Ricœurian
  9. rid
  10. rid a horse foaled by an acorn
  11. rid out

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