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Definition of "rice-field" []

  • A field on which rice is grown. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "rice-field" in a sentence
  • "Leaders dubbed China's top rice-field capitalists wanyuanhu, or ten-thousand-yuan households."
  • "Finding my own footsteps in the deep dust, I got back to a pathway with a monstrous bamboo hedge on one side, and a rice-field on the other, in which was a slimy looking pond with a margin of pink water-lilies, in which a number of pink buffaloes of large size were wallowing with much noise and rough play, plastering their sensitive hides with mud as a protection against mosquitoes."
  • "Walking out to a small hill near the village, cultivated as a rice-field, I had a fine view of the country, which was becoming quite hilly, and towards the south, mountainous."