rice growing

== English == === Alternative forms === rice-growing === Etymology === 1873 rice-growing, rice +‎ growing. === Adjective === rice growing (not comparable) 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 ==== === Noun === rice growing (uncountable) The growing of rice. ==== Translations ====