white rice

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   having husk or outer brown layers removed

   Synonymspolished rice

   Broaderrice

Questions about white rice

What does white rice mean?

white rice means "having husk or outer brown layers removed".

What is another word for white rice?

Close synonyms include polished rice. 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.

Is white rice a common word?

white rice 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.