white rice

noun

: rice from which the hull and bran have been removed by milling

Examples of white rice in a Sentence

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My family was subsisting on flour and white rice left over from the last ceasefire, in January, 2025. Mosab Abu Toha, New Yorker, 12 June 2025 Some basic rice cookers don’t have settings for different types of rice, or just two settings — one for white rice and one for brown rice. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 2 June 2025 Replace white rice with brown rice, buckwheat, quinoa, or bulgur. Jillian Kubala, Health, 21 Apr. 2025 One problem may be a lack of enough milling capacity to turn the stocks of brown rice kept in reserves into the pure white rice that Japanese prefer. Mari Yamaguchi, Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for white rice

Word History

First Known Use

1916, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of white rice was in 1916

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“White rice.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20rice. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

Kids Definition

white rice

noun
: rice from which outer covering and seed coat have been removed

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