HyperDic: cultivated_rice

English > 1 sense of the expression *cultivated rice*:
NOUN	plant	cultivated rice, Oryza sativa	yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population

English > *cultivated rice*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population.
Synonym	Oryza sativa
Parts	rice	grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
Broader	rice	annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses