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CULTIVATED RICE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population
Synonyms:
cultivated rice; Oryza sativa
Classified under:
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)