BROWN RICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brown rice mean? 

• BROWN RICE (noun)
  The noun BROWN RICE has 1 sense:

1. unpolished rice retaining the yellowish-brown outer layer

  Familiarity information: BROWN RICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROWN RICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unpolished rice retaining the yellowish-brown outer layer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("brown rice" is a kind of...):

rice (grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished)

 Context examples 

It came out with a brown rice paper and a pinch of Mexican tobacco, which were deftly rolled together into a cigarette.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It is found in beans, peas, brown rice, wheat bran and nuts.

(Inositol, NCI Dictionary)

Foods high in magnesium include almonds, bananas, beans, broccoli, brown rice, cashews, egg yolk, fish oil, flaxseed, green vegetables, milk, mushrooms, other nuts, oatmeal, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, soybeans, sunflower seeds, sweet corn, tofu, and whole grains (see: Foods, by content of Magnesium, Mg)

(Low Magnesium Levels Make Vitamin D Ineffective, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)