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oryza sati·va

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cultivated rice, Oryza sativanoun

    yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population

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  1. Oryza sativa

    Oryza sativa, commonly known as Asian rice or indica rice, is the plant species most commonly referred to in English as rice. It is the type of farmed rice whose cultivars are most common globally, and was first domesticated in the Yangtze River basin in China 13,500 to 8,200 years ago.Oryza sativa belongs to the genus Oryza of the grass family Poaceae. With a genome consisting of 430 Mbp across 12 chromosomes, it is renowned for being easy to genetically modify and is a model organism for the botany of cereals.

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  1. oryza sativa

    Oryza sativa is the scientific name for Asian rice, the plant species most commonly referred to simply as rice. It is a staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in Asia, and is the most widely consumed cereal grain globally. It is a member of the grass family and comes in various strains such as indica and japonica, which are used to produce different types of rice like long-grain, short-grain, and sticky rice.

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  1. Oryza sativa

    Oryza sativa, commonly known as Asian rice, is the plant species most commonly referred to in English as rice. Oryza sativa is the cereal with the smallest genome, consisting of just 430Mb across 12 chromosomes. It is renowned for being easy to genetically modify, and is a model organism for cereal biology.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Oryza sativa

    Annual cereal grass of the family POACEAE and its edible starchy grain, rice, which is the staple food of roughly one-half of the world's population.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of oryza sativa in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of oryza sativa in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4


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