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Definition of Polished rice
1. Noun. Having husk or outer brown layers removed.
Definition of Polished rice
1. Noun. Rice with the husk or outer brown layers removed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polished Rice
Literary usage of Polished rice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"L THE DEFICIENCY DISEASES 1 by feeding them on white or polished rice. ...
One party received polished rice as the staple article of diet, while the other ..."
2. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"The deficient mineral salt content of the polished rice is not the cause of the
deficiency as the addition of salts and free mineral acids closely imitating ..."
3. The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition: The Use of Food for the Preservation of by Elmer Verner McCollum (1922)
"The coating on our polished rice is talcum powder. ... On the grain of polished
rice, there is a tiny pit in which the germ rested before its removal. ..."
4. The Vitamins by Henry Clapp Sherman, Sybil Laura Smith (1922)
"produced in pigeons on diets of polished rice. In support of this he claims to
have produced the classical symptoms of polyneuritis in from 12 to 14 days in ..."
5. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"In north Japan, polished rice, imperfectly dried, frequently becomes purplish
red in storage. Various molds and bacteria were isolated from such rice ..."
6. Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by Henry Clapp Sherman (1918)
"The change in the ration, as finally decided upon after some months of experimentation,
consisted in giving, in place of the 20 oz. of polished rice, ..."
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