1. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished 
2. Annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper

1. Sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice
   "rice the potatoes"

1. English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)
   - Sir Tim Rice, Timothy Miles Bindon Rice 
2. United States playwright (1892-1967)
   - Elmer Rice, Elmer Leopold Rice, Elmer Reizenstein

Derived forms: ricing, riced, rices

See also: ricer

Type of: cereal, cereal grass, dramatist, food grain, grain, lyricist, lyrist, playwright, sieve, sift, starches, strain

Part of: cultivated rice, genus Oryza, Oryza, Oryza sativa

Encyclopedia: Rice, Jerry Rice, Grantland Rice, MN Rice, Kansas Rice, Edmund Ignatius Rice, Anne Rice Rice, California Rice, CA Rice, Thomas Rice, Texas Rice, Virginia Rice, VA Rice, TX Rice, Or Rice, Minnesota Rice, Sam Rice, Oregon

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