rice

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A cereal grass (Oryza sativa) that is cultivated extensively in warm climates for its edible grain.
• noun The starchy grain of this plant, used as a staple food throughout the world.
• transitive verb To sieve (food) to the consistency of rice.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The grain of the rice-plant.
• noun The rice-plant, Oryza sativa.
• noun Rice produced in India.
• noun Another spelling of rise.
• noun A collapsible hexagonal reel upon which a hank of yarn is placed for winding on a bobbin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Bot.) A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed.
• noun (Bot.) See under Ant.
• noun (Bot.) See Amelcorn.
• noun a tall reedlike water grass (Zizania aquatica), bearing panicles of a long, slender grain, much used for food by North American Indians. It is common in shallow water in the Northern States. Called also water oat, Canadian wild rice, etc.
• noun any species of an American genus (Oryzopsis) of grasses, somewhat resembling rice.
• noun (Zoöl.) Same as Ricebird.
• noun (Zoöl.) the Florida gallinule.
• noun (Zoöl.) a large dark-colored field mouse (Calomys palistris) of the Southern United States.
• noun a kind of thin, delicate paper, brought from China, -- used for painting upon, and for the manufacture of fancy articles. It is made by cutting the pith of a large herb (Fatsia papyrifera, related to the ginseng) into one roll or sheet, which is flattened out under pressure. Called also pith paper.
• noun (Zoöl.) the bobolink.
• noun a drink for invalids made by boiling a small quantity of rice in water.
• noun (Med.) a liquid, resembling rice water in appearance, which is vomited, and discharged from the bowels, in cholera.
• noun (Zoöl.) a small beetle (Calandra oryzæ, or Sitophilus oryzæ) which destroys rice, wheat, and Indian corn by eating out the interior; -- called also black weevil.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun uncountable Cereal plants (Oryza sativa) of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
• noun A specific variety of this plant.
• noun uncountable The seeds of this plant used as food.
• verb to squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces
• verb to throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
• verb to belittle a government emissary or similar on behalf of a more powerful militaristic state
• verb to harvest wild rice Zinzania sp.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice
• noun grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
• noun annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
• noun English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)
• noun United States playwright (1892-1967)