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| Colorful English! | ||||
| Word or Phrase: | Part of Speech: | Idiom or General?: | Usage? | Restricted? |
| brown rice | noun | general | fairly common | No |
| Meaning: | ||||
| rice that has been hulled but not polished, and still has most of the bran layers, endosperm, and germ, and therefore most of the nutritious parts | ||||
| Example(s): | ||||
| Brown rice is a lot more nutritious than white rice, but the latter is more popular in most of Asia and America. | ||||
| Note: See white rice | ||||