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CULTIVATED RICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cultivated rice mean? 

CULTIVATED RICE (noun)
  The noun CULTIVATED RICE has 1 sense:

1. yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's populationplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CULTIVATED RICE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cultivated rice; Oryza sativa

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

rice (annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper)

Meronyms (parts of "cultivated rice"):

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


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