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Rice

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.

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Cereal 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.

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Grain 76% connected

See Groan.

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Sieve 76% connected

A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow…

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Sift 76% connected

To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

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Strain 76% connected

Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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Paddy 76% connected

Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.

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Sake 70% connected

Final cause; end; purpose of obtaining; cause; motive; reason; interest; concern; account; regard or respect; -- used chiefly in such phrases as, for…

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Saki 70% connected

Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Pithecia. They have large ears, and a long hairy tail which is not prehensile.

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Bean caper unknown · 78% connection

A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophy…

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Bermuda grass unknown · 78% connection

A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now w…

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Bran noun · 78% connection

The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse,…

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Caryopsis noun · 78% connection

A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorp…

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Cochineal fig unknown · 78% connection

A plant of Central and Southern America, of the Cactus family, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which live…

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Corn noun · 78% connection

tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico…

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Darnel noun · 78% connection

Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other spe…

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Farina noun · 78% connection

fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings

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Gama grass unknown · 78% connection

A species of grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Sou…

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Hothouse noun · 78% connection

A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared,…

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