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kikino, Rice.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word
• Examples:
  • Laiki keʻokeʻo, lāisi keʻokeʻo (white rice)
  • Laiki mākuʻe, lāisi mākuʻe. Brown rice.
  • Laiki mōchī, lāisi mōchī. Mochi rice.
• Related:
  • Also: lāisi.
  • Pōpō laiki, pōpō lāisi, musubī. Rice ball, musubi.

v., To cram; to stuff; to throw together confusedly; to eat too much; to be full, as an over-loaded stomach.

s., Fullness, as of the stomach from over-eating; ua laiki ka opu.

adj., Full, as the stomach from eating too much.

s., Hawaiian orthography for raisi. Eng. Rice; a vegetable; a species of grain.

s., Rice, &c.

adj., Full, as the stomach from eating too much.

n., [Hawaiian orthography for raisi. (Eng.)] Rice; a species of grain.

n., Fullness, as of the stomach from over-eating; ua laiki ka opu.

1. v., To be tight; to fit too close.

2. v., To be full, as an overloaded stomach; to be oppressed with a sensation of fullness from food or gas.

Rice.

Rice.

Rice (Oryza sativa) (NEAL 69.) See Plants: Uses.

Rice (Oryza sativa), one of six tropical species in the genus of rather tall annual and perennial swamp grasses. It is the chief food of more than half the worldʻs people. Besides food, rice grains provide fermented liquor, a nondrying oil, and a laundry starch. Its straw supplies hats and shoes. (NEAL 69.)

rice.