paddies
Meaning
of Paddy
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
Land was reclaimed from the sea and from river deltas by building dikes and drainage, and rice paddies were built on terraces carved into mountainsides.
Clusters of bamboo are popularly known as the emblem of Vietnam’s rural areas, together with banyan trees, rice paddies, and village ponds.
A seasonal delicacy, the crickets are collected from rice paddies after the harvest.
In America in the mid-1960s, my generation saw that first hand when the mighty America began to scramble to get bodies for the rice paddies in Southeast Asia.
If I were stranded on a desert island, I'd be just fine so long as there was ample seafood, rice paddies, and someone to turn it all into perfect sushi every day.
The mothers, daughters, elders, and children of my hometown stampeded south, hitching ourselves onto trains, scrabbling up mountains, wading through paddies, and treading rivers.