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RICE PAPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rice paper mean? 

RICE PAPER (noun)
  The noun RICE PAPER has 1 sense:

1. a thin delicate material resembling paper; made from the rice-paper treeplay

  Familiarity information: RICE PAPER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RICE PAPER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A thin delicate material resembling paper; made from the rice-paper tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("rice paper" is a kind of...):

paper (a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses)


 Context examples 


It came out with a brown rice paper and a pinch of Mexican tobacco, which were deftly rolled together into a cigarette.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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