rice paddy
10
2.5
- noun
- /raɪs ˈpædi/
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arrozal
- The farmer worked tirelessly in the rice paddy to ensure a good harvest this season.
Yeah, I was repelling out of helicopters in rice paddies while people are shooting at me.
- Yeah, I was repelling out of helicopters in rice paddies while people are shooting at me.
Examples
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Zhu Li walks along the mud dikes to the rice paddy, where her father and Strong Mountain are working.
Fiction book (2002) -
The water buffalo, used to plow rice paddies, assumed an increasingly prominent role in the domestic economy.
Academic text (1993) -
Where the road turned aside into a lane, one came out immediately among the rice paddies.
Fiction book (2002) -
This will help us replant the rice paddies.
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A minuscule garden, not even two feet across, fell away to the rice paddies at the water's edge.
Fiction book (2002) -
Workers tend a rice paddy in Laos; agricultural runoff degrades the Mekong's water quality.
Academic text (2007) -
We were out wandering in the rice paddies on a way to a village to collect alms food one day with my teacher, Ajam Cha and some monks.
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The major global sources of methane are wetlands, swamps, and rice paddies (all strongly anaerobic environments).
Academic text (1992) -
Other greenhouse gas emissions include methane from rice paddies, grazing ruminants, and nitrous oxide from fertilizers.
Academic text (2006) -
As we drove through the countryside, we saw beautiful green rice paddies flooded with water.
Synonyms
16
3.6
A flooded field where people grow rice
1
2.8
A flooded field where farmers grow rice, often in Asia
How Wet
10
2.5
- Specialized
1
5.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a field irrigated or flooded for cultivating rice' is directly and transparently composed from 'rice' (the crop) + 'paddy' (land, usually flooded, used to grow rice), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the phrase meaning. This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common compositional compound, making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Rice paddy shows a simple, literal picture: a low, muddy 'field' called a paddy that is kept flooded so farmers plant and grow rice. That's why it means 'a field that is flooded for growing rice'.