Oryza sativa
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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.
Synonyms
- (species): Oryza communissima, Oryza formosana, Oryza glutinosa, Oryza marginata, Oryza montana, Oryza nepalensis, Oryza perennis, Oryza plena, Oryza praecox, Oryza repens, Oryza rubribarbis
Hypernyms
- (species): Poales - order; 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.
Derived terms
References
- Oryza sativa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Oryza sativa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Oryza sativa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Oryza sativa at Plants of the World Online
- Oryza sativa at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Oryza sativa at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Oryza sativa at USDA Plants database
- Oryza sativa at Tropicos
- List of sequenced plant genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
