sticky rice

[stik-ee rahys]

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noun

a variety of cultivated short-grain rice grown especially in Southeast, East, and South Asia that becomes notably sticky when cooked: most varieties of short-grain rice contain both amylopectin and amylose, but sticky rice contains only amylopectin.

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First recorded in 1840–45

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Examples have not been reviewed.

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