variants
or less commonly padi
plural paddies also padis
1
: rice
especially
: threshed unmilled rice
2
: wet land in which rice is grown
Examples of paddy in a Sentence
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Norma Meyer, Orange County Register, 15 May 2024
Travelers will have the opportunity to see water buffalo, lotus ponds, rice paddies, and other local flora and fauna.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 May 2024
The surrounding landscape brims with rain forests and terraced rice paddies.
—Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2024
For generations, the pilgrimages involved mostly farmers and fishermen who carried Mazu statues through nearby rice paddies and along dirt paths.
—Amy Chang Chien Lam Yik Fei, New York Times, 3 May 2024
This requires less water than traditional farming since his paddy fields aren’t continuously submerged.
—Aniruddha Ghosal, Fortune Asia, 23 Apr. 2024
Saltwater is invading her rice paddies bordering the tidal estuary and mangroves, caused by rising sea levels.
—Jack Thompson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2024
The offensive began with a daylight assault in which Lieutenant Puckett moved ahead of his men and ran through a frozen rice paddy in an effort to flush out a Chinese gunner.
—Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
The gas comes from decomposing trash in landfills, methane-emitting microbes in rice paddies, and infamously from livestock burping and pooping.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 Mar. 2024
Noun
My legs ferried me past terraced rice paddies, two goats chomping hay at a farmstead, and a woodworker’s shed of chiseled lucky owls.
—Norma Meyer, Orange County Register, 15 May 2024
Travelers will have the opportunity to see water buffalo, lotus ponds, rice paddies, and other local flora and fauna.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 May 2024
The surrounding landscape brims with rain forests and terraced rice paddies.
—Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2024
For generations, the pilgrimages involved mostly farmers and fishermen who carried Mazu statues through nearby rice paddies and along dirt paths.
—Amy Chang Chien Lam Yik Fei, New York Times, 3 May 2024
This requires less water than traditional farming since his paddy fields aren’t continuously submerged.
—Aniruddha Ghosal, Fortune Asia, 23 Apr. 2024
Saltwater is invading her rice paddies bordering the tidal estuary and mangroves, caused by rising sea levels.
—Jack Thompson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2024
The offensive began with a daylight assault in which Lieutenant Puckett moved ahead of his men and ran through a frozen rice paddy in an effort to flush out a Chinese gunner.
—Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
The gas comes from decomposing trash in landfills, methane-emitting microbes in rice paddies, and infamously from livestock burping and pooping.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 Mar. 2024
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“Paddy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paddy. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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