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unhulled rice; rice in the husk; paddy
Rice grains that still have their outer husk on, as harvested from the plant before threshing and hulling.
籾を乾燥させる。
We dry the unhulled rice.
収穫した籾を倉庫に保管する。
We store the harvested unhulled rice in the warehouse.
籾から殻を取り除くと玄米になる。
When you remove the husk from unhulled rice, you get brown rice.
Rice as it comes off the plant, still wrapped in its hard outer husk. After drying, the husk is removed to make 玄米 (brown rice), which is then polished into 白米 (white rice).
RELATED WORDS:
- 籾殻: rice husk — the outer covering removed from the grain
- 玄米: brown rice — hulled but unpolished
- 稲: rice plant — the growing plant that produces 籾