Definition of Cultivated rice

1. Noun. Yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population.

Exact synonyms: Oryza Sativa
Terms within: Rice
Generic synonyms: Rice

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cultivated Rice

cultivabilities
cultivability
cultivable
cultivar
cultivars
cultivatable
cultivate
cultivated
cultivated cabbage
cultivated carrot
cultivated celery
cultivated crab apple
cultivated land
cultivated parsnip
cultivated plant
cultivated rice (current term)
cultivated strawberry
cultivated yeast
cultivates
cultivating
cultivation
cultivations
cultivator
cultivators
cultlike
cultrate
cultrated
cultriform
cults
cults of personality

Literary usage of Cultivated rice

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Rice Market Liberalization and Poverty in Viet Nam by Nicholas Minot, Francesco Goletti (2000)
"Table 3—Average farm size and cultivated rice area by region Sources: Agricultural Census data from GSO 1995b, Vol 1, 92, 96, 100, 104, 108, 112, 118, ..."

2. The Small Grains by Mark Alfred Carleton (1920)
"The oldest Sanskrit name for cultivated rice is ... In the expeditions of Alexander the Great (400 BC) cultivated rice was observed in Babylonia and Susa. ..."

3. A Statistical Account of Bengal by William Wilson Hunter, Herbert Hope Risley, Hermann Michael Kisch (1875)
"By the middle of December, the home-cultivated rice has been cut and stored, and the peasant then returns to the Sundarbans, and reaps the ..."

4. Corn Plants: Their Uses and Ways of Life by Frederick Leroy Sargent (1899)
"If, however, we place some ripe spikelets of cultivated rice in water, ... The increased size and weight of the cultivated rice grains are plainly results ..."

5. A Report on the District of Jessore: Its Antiquities, Its History, and Its by James Westland (1871)
"The ryot now again comes home, and these outposts of cultivation are absolutely abandoned—large extents of cultivated rice-fields and not a symptom of human ..."

6. A Report on the District of Jessore: Its Antiquities, Its History, and Its by James Westland (1871)
"The ryot now again comes home, and these outposts of cultivation are absolutely abandoned—large extents of cultivated rice-fields and not a symptom of human ..."

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