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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small destructive insect (Sitophilus oryzae) that infests stored grain and cereal products.
Wiktionary
- n. Sitophilus oryzae, a pest that attacks several crops, including wheat, rice, and maize.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (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 .
WordNet 3.0
- n. brown weevil that infests stored grain especially rice
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Open List: Rice Is Nice!
Everything rice. There are many styles of sushi listed here. For convention's sake, I list them in lower case letters and without a hyphen (inarizushi rather than Inari-zushi).
Rice v...Carnaroli, ricer, wild rice, risotto, sushi, arborio, basmati, superfino, amylose, beri-beri, Carolina rice, Indo-Chinese rice and 155 more...
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