rice growing

See also: ricegrowing

English

Alternative forms

• rice-growing

Etymology

1873 rice-growing, rice +‎ growing.

Adjective

rice growing (not comparable)

1. rice-growing; which grows or is capable of growing rice.
   • 1873, Heber Drury, s.v. “Oryza sativa”, The Useful Plants of India: With Notices of Their Chief Value in Commerce, Medicine, and the Arts, 2nd ed., London: William H. Allen, p 324:

     Among other kinds the Patna justly celebrated, but perhaps the most fertile province for rice-growing is Arracan, from whence great quantities of the grain are shipped to Europe from the port of Akyab, the importance of which is yearly increasing.

Translations

growing rice

• Hungarian: rizstermelő (hu)
• Italian: risicolo

Noun

rice growing (uncountable)

1. The growing of rice.

Translations

the growing of rice

• Finnish: riisinviljely
• French: riziculture (fr) f
• Hungarian: rizstermelés (hu)
• Italian: risicoltura f
• Japanese: 稲作 (ja) (inasaku)
• Korean: 벼농사 (byeonongsa), 도작 (dojak)