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Definition of Indian rice

1. Noun. Grains of aquatic grass of North America.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indian Rice

Literary usage of Indian rice

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Book of Grasses: An Illustrated Guide to the Common Grasses, and the by Mary Francis Baker (1912)
"indian rice Zizania palustris In shallow water and on muddy shores the Indian Rice grows, a tall, stout grass whose long flowering heads seem like a ..."

2. The Cultivatorby New York State Agricultural Society by New York State Agricultural Society (1858)
"indian rice is as highly esteemed by the Tn- s of the northwest, as was corn in the first settlement of the country, by the Indians of the northeast, ..."

3. The Canadian Settler's Guide by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (1857)
"The parched Indian-rice is heated in pots over a slow fire, ... Indian-rice is sold in the stores at 10s. a bushel : it affords a great quantity of food. ..."

4. Poverty and Un-British Rule in India by Dadabhai Naoroji (1901)
"Such are the prices paid in England for indian rice during the past fifteen years, ... If the United Kingdom got indian rice at the above steady prices, ..."

5. Travels in Arabia: Comprehending an Account of Those Territories in Hadjaz by John Lewis Burckhardt (1829)
"The grain of the indian rice is larger and longer than the common sort of Egypt, ... The indian rice swells more in boiling than the Egyptian, ..."

6. The Empire and the Century: A Series of Essays on Imperial Problems and by Charles Sydney Goldman, Rudyard Kipling (1905)
"The duty against indian rice is that of the general tariff, 1 dollar 20 cents per 100 kilos, with a preference of 40 per cent. upon that rate in favour of ..."

7. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1891)
"Good indian rice has the following composition : Moisture, 13'50 per cent. ; nitrogenous matter, 7'41 ; starch, 78'10; fatty or oily matter, 0'40 ; ash, ..."

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