rice paper

rice paper

noun

Definition of RICE PAPER

: a thin papery material made from the pith of a small Asian tree or shrub (Tetrapanax papyriferum) of the ginseng family

Origin of RICE PAPER

from its resemblance to paper made from rice straw

First Known Use: 1822

Rhymes with RICE PAPER

bond paper, crepe paper, curlpaper, endpaper, escaper, flypaper, graph paper, landscaper, newspaper, notepaper, reshaper, sandpaper, skyscraper, tar paper, term paper, wallpaper, wastepaper, waxed paper, white paper