Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling rice or some aspect of it.

Etymologies

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rice +‎ -like

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Examples

  • For a nice presentation and a ricelike feel, serve the spinach over a bed of hemp seed.

    The Truth About Beauty Kat James 2007

  • For a nice presentation and a ricelike feel, serve the spinach over a bed of hemp seed.

    The Truth About Beauty Kat James 2007

  • Buccari inspected the chest high thatch for seeds and was delighted to find dense rows of ricelike grain.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • Not all of the purple-black metallic walls of the alien transporter chamber had writing on them, but the ones that did were inscribed from floor to ceiling with rows of ricelike script.

    The Janus Gate: Future Imperfect L. A. Graf 2002

  • Not all of the purple-black metallic walls of the alien transporter chamber had writing on them, but the ones that did were inscribed from floor to ceiling with rows of ricelike script.

    The Janus Gate: Future Imperfect L. A. Graf 2002

  • Not all of the purple-black metallic walls of the alien transporter chamber had writing on them, but the ones that did were inscribed from floor to ceiling with rows of ricelike script.

    The Janus Gate: Future Imperfect L. A. Graf 2002

  • The dehuller does only half of what African women do: it takes off the seed's outer layer, leaving white, ricelike grain.

    Chapter 24 1996

  • Sorghum also goes into noodles, porridges, and boiled (ricelike) dishes.

    10. Sorghum: Specialty Types 1996

  • Uncommon varieties of plants, such as ferns and ricelike growths, furnish him with the vegetable part of his meal, while venison and pork are obtained from the abundance of wild boars and deer.

    The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

  • Uhura’s eyes hadn’t left the intricately flashing rows of lights with their familiar ricelike shapes.

    The Janus Gate: Future Imperfect L. A. Graf 2002

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