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Paddy field   /pˈædi fild/   Listen
Paddy field

noun
1.
An irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.  Synonyms: paddy, rice paddy.






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"Paddy field" Quotes from Famous Books



... absolutely upon the mud of Nile. The bricks of Babylon were moulded of Euphrates mud; the greatness of Nineveh reposed on the silt of the Tigris. Upper India is the Indus; Agra and Delhi are Ganges and Jumna mud; China is the Hoang Ho and the Yang-tse-Kiang; Burmah is the paddy field of the Irrawaddy delta. And so many great plains in either hemisphere consist really of nothing else but mud-banks of almost incredible extent, filling up prehistoric Baltics and Mediterraneans, that a glance at the probable course ...
— Science in Arcady • Grant Allen



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