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Oryza sativa, having the common name Asian cultivated rice, [2] is the much more common of the two rice species cultivated as a cereal, the other species being O. glaberrima, African rice.
Pádraig is also sometimes anglicised as Paddy or Podge; the former anglicisation is often used, sometimes pejoratively, as a term for Irish people as a whole. The Scottish Gaelic forms are Pàdraig (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈpʰaːt̪ɾɪkʲ]) or Pàra (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈpʰaːɾə]) for short (cf. Para Handy).
Paddy is a diminutive form of the male given names Patrick, Patricia, Padraig, Padraic and variant forms. It is also a nickname. Notable people include:
Paddy (given name), a list of people with the given name or nickname; A nickname or slur for an Irish person; Birds. Paddy (pigeon), a Second World War carrier pigeon;
Slave patrols—also known as patrollers, patterrollers, pattyrollers, or paddy rollers [1] —were organized groups of armed men who monitored and enforced discipline upon slaves in the antebellum U.S. southern states. The slave patrols' function was to police slaves, especially those who escaped or were viewed as defiant.
A paddy field is a flooded field of arable land used for growing semiaquatic crops, most notably rice and taro. It originates from the Neolithic rice-farming cultures ...
Maliarpha separatella, the African white stemborer, is a species of moth of the family Pyralidae.A worldwide paddy pest, it is found throughout African countries of Cameroon, Mali, Réunion, Madagascar, South Africa, [1] [2] and many Asian paddy cultivating countries such as Myanmar, India, and Sri Lanka.
Sida rhombifolia, commonly known as arrowleaf sida, [1] is a perennial or sometimes annual plant in the Family Malvaceae, native to the Old World tropics and subtropics.Other common names include rhombus-leaved sida, Paddy's lucerne, jelly leaf, and also somewhat confusingly as Cuban jute, [2] Queensland-hemp, [3] and Indian hemp (although S. rhombifolia is not closely related to either jute ...