rice – English noun declension

English noun forms of rice

Noun: rice
Singularrice
Pluralrices

Sample Sentences

  • 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:]
  • Drought stress causes yield reductions and sometimes total crop failures in rainfed rice areas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. [1982, International Rice Research Institute, Drought Resistance in Crops with Emphasis on Rice:]
  • Rice transformed with genes encoding human CYP1a1, CYP2B6, and CYP2C19 are more tolerant of various herbicides than non-transgenic rice plants, due to increased metabolism by the introduced P450 enzymes [Kawwahigashi et al. 2005a, 2007, 2008; James et al. 2008]. [2014, V. S. Rao, Transgenic Herbicide Resistance in Plants:]
  • 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:]
  • First, we have the Italian rices; secondly, the rices of the French colonies of Indo-China and Madagascar, which are beginning to cultivate rices of very fine quality, altogether superior to those that were cultivated only a few years back. [1922 April 26, L. Humbert, “America Has Hard Competition in France”, in Rice Journal and Southern Farmer, volume 25, number 4:]
  • For commercial purposes, the rices are classified according to the kernel length as short-grain, medium-grain, longgrain and long-slender-grain. [2000, R.K Singh, U.S. Singh, G.S. Khush, editors, Aromatic Rices:]
  • 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:]
  • In Britain too rice is reputed to increase the sexual faculties. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 207:]
  • In sum, when a modern Japanese family and its members sit around the supper table eating their bowls of Japanese-grown rice, they are not simply indulging a gastronomic preference for short-grained and slightly sticky japonica rice over long-grained indica rice from Thailand. [1998, Noreen G. Dowling, Sustainability of Rice in the Global Food System:]
  • On the festival day, rice is cooked together with this rice knot above. [2010, S. D. Sharma, Rice: Origin, Antiquity and History:]
  • 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:]
  • This is my first rice!

Etymology

1. From Middle English rys, from Old French ris, from Old Italian riso, risi, from Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), from an Eastern Iranian language related to Middle Persian blnc (*brinǰ), Northern Kurdish riz (beyond Euphrates) and Zazaki riz. Theorized to have come to Iranian languages from Sanskrit व्रीहि (vrīhi).
2. Prior to Sanskrit, it is speculated to be possibly a borrowing from a Dravidian language (compare Proto-Dravidian *wariñci (“rice”)), or from Austroasiatic languages further east.
3. Alternatively Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza) is said to be from Hebrew אורז (órez), from South Arabian areez ultimately from Old Tamil 𑀅𑀭𑀺𑀘𑀺 (arici).
4. Doublet of arroz. See: Middle English Nouns 'rys'.

Verbs referencing "rice"

German Nouns Reis, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns ris, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns ris, Finnish Nouns riisi, Icelandic Nouns hrís, Zulu Nouns ilayisi, English Nouns omurice.