variants
or less commonly padi
plural paddies also padis
1
: rice
especially
: threshed unmilled rice
2
: wet land in which rice is grown
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Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 9 June 2025
Walk through a mysterious tunnel to a sunset bar overlooking ancient rice paddies.
—Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
The researchers’ rice paddies were representative of rice paddies in Asia, which means that what happened in their paddies is likely happening in others around the region.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2025
Experts agree that an important key to rebuilding salmon runs is increasing the frequency and duration of shallow flooding in riverside riparian areas, or even fallow rice paddies — a program Katz has helped develop through his career.
—Alastair Bland | Calmatters, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Today, aside from villages, rice paddies, temples, and a few small tourist resorts, the landscape remains in its natural, dramatic condition—one of the reasons 2017’s Kong: Skull Island was filmed here.
—Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 9 June 2025
Walk through a mysterious tunnel to a sunset bar overlooking ancient rice paddies.
—Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
The researchers’ rice paddies were representative of rice paddies in Asia, which means that what happened in their paddies is likely happening in others around the region.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2025
Experts agree that an important key to rebuilding salmon runs is increasing the frequency and duration of shallow flooding in riverside riparian areas, or even fallow rice paddies — a program Katz has helped develop through his career.
—Alastair Bland | Calmatters, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Paddy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paddy. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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