(husked grains of) rice; staple (product, etc.); necessity
cooked rice; something one never grows tired of
rice cultivation; rice farming
komejirushi; Japanese punctuation mark similar in usage to an asterisk
rice miso; miso fermented with malted rice
shift away from rice consumption; consumers losing interest in eating rice
kome hyappyō; (ideal of) enduring pain today for the sake of a better tomorrow; (lit.) hundred sacks of rice
staple product of an industry; core product
Oriental longheaded locust (Acrida cinerea); click beetle; skipjack (beetle of family Elateridae); obsequious person
pointless (academic) degree; meaningless qualification; useless license; (lit.) a grain of rice on the sole of the foot (must be removed, but not enough for a meal)
grain thief; tool for extracting rice from a bag for sampling
arborio rice (Italian variety)
kanji "rice" radical at left
click beetle; skipjack (beetle of family Elateridae)
bobolink (species of songbird, Dolichonyx oryzivorous)
black medic (Medicago lupulina); black hay; black nonsuch; blackweed
lesser hop trefoil (Trifolium dubium); suckling clover
rice rat (Oryzomyini spp.)