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Oryza_sativa
Oryza sativa
Translingual
Proper noun
- A taxonomic species within the family Poaceae – Asian rice or rice, widely cultivated, probably domesticated in China from Oryza rufipogon some 10,000 years ago.
Hypernyms
- (species): Poaceae - family; Oryzoideae - subfamily; Oryzeae - tribe; Oryzinae - subtribe; Oryza - genus
Hyponyms
- (species): See List of rice varieties on Wikipedia.Wikipedia for vernacular and other names of many kinds of rice.
See also
- List of sequenced plant genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia