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white rice

white rice

9 1.0
A soft white grain with its outer parts removed
  • noun
  • /waɪt raɪs/
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  • Teriyaki chicken goes best with this white rice.
  • produce white rice

These are things like white rice, white bread, sugar, etcetera.

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Examples

  • I'm going to have that with shrimp and white rice and my seal sama teriyaki sauce that is on the menu for dinner tonight.

  • The chicken was served with two scoops of pleasantly sticky steamed white rice.

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  • I'm talking about what goes best with white rice.

  • I'm always the fullest when I have a bowl of white rice with a meal.

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  • I usually get like chicken, black beans, white rice, the fajita veggies.

  • This pork loin cutlet is what goes best with white rice.

  • Growing up, white rice and/or wheat rotis were a must for lunch and dinner.

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  • My mom came from the Philippines, and not one meal was without white rice (usually jasmine).

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  • For this recipe, you're going to need a whole pineapple, frozen shrimp, white rice, minced garlic, soy sauce, green onions, and carrots.

  • Teriyaki chicken goes best with white rice.

Synonyms

polished rice
vswhite rice
2.8

A type of rice with the husk and brown outer layer removed

removes germ and bran as well producing a fully cleaned pale grain

How Refined

white rice
9 1.0
brown rice
12 1.2

Surface Forms

white rice singular
white rices plural

Morphology

white + rice

The meaning is directly compositional: the adjective 'white' modifies 'rice' to indicate rice that is white in colour, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to the (polished) variety of rice with white grains. This simple adjective+noun pattern is common across languages and follows standard English modification, making the phrase immediately understandable from its parts.

Etymology

White rice gets its name from the way white describes the pale look of the rice after people remove the outer layers and polish the grain. So 'white rice' means rice that has had its outer parts taken away and is left as the soft, white grain we eat.