rice vs vegetable

rice

noun
  • The seeds of this plant used as food. 

  • A specific variety of this plant. 

  • Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food. 

  • The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner. 

  • A twig or stick. 

verb
  • To harvest wild rice (Zizania sp.) 

  • To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment. 

  • To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding). 

  • To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes). 

vegetable

noun
  • The edible part of such a plant. 

  • A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state. 

  • Any plant. 

  • A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense. 

adj
  • Of or relating to plants. 

  • Of or relating to vegetables. 

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