rice paper

1. 1.

   a thin delicate material resembling paper; made from the rice-paper tree

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Questions about rice paper

What does rice paper mean?

rice paper means "a thin delicate material resembling paper; made from the rice-paper tree".

Is rice paper a common word?

rice paper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.