rice

noun

1. grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished

Definition categories: food, starches, cereal, grain

2. annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper

Definition categories: plant, cereal

verb

1. sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice

- rice the potatoes

Definition categories: contact, sieve, sift, strain