cultivated rice

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   yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population

   SynonymsOryza sativa

   Broaderrice

   Partsrice

Questions about cultivated rice

What does cultivated rice mean?

cultivated rice means "yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population".

What is another word for cultivated rice?

Close synonyms include Oryza sativa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.