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rice growing en · ADJ

Etymology

1873 rice-growing, rice + growing.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) rice-growing; which grows or is capable of growing rice.
    • Among other kinds the Patna justly celebrated, but perhaps the most fertile province for rice-growing is Arracan, from whence great quantities of the grain are shipped to Europe from the port of Akyab, the importance of which is yearly increasing. 1873, Heber Drury, s.v. “Oryza sativa”, The Useful Plants of India: With Notices of Their Chief Value in Commerce, Medicine, and the Arts, 2nd ed., London: William H. Allen, p 324

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Translations (2)

hu rizstermelő (growing rice) · it risicolo (growing rice)

rice growing en · NOUN

Etymology

1873 rice-growing, rice + growing.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The growing of rice.

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Translations (7)

ja 稲作 (the growing of rice) · fi riisinviljely (the growing of rice) · ko 도작 (the growing of rice) · fr riziculture (the growing of rice) · it risicoltura (the growing of rice) · hu rizstermelés (the growing of rice) · ko 벼농사 (the growing of rice)