paddies

Flooded crop terraces

Paddies is the plural of paddy, a flooded field where rice is cultivated: The terraced paddies covered the hillside.

A paddy can also mean rice still in its husk.

Separately, Paddy is an Irish nickname from Patrick, and paddy (lowercase) is an offensive slur for an Irish person.

Paddy wagon likely derives from this ethnic slur.

ricefield

terraces

Raised flat outdoor areas

harvest · flooded · water buffalo · sickle · thresher · rice mill · milling · husk · grain · stubble

wetland

waterlogged

Saturated with liquid

sedge · reedbed · mangrove · delta · floodplain · aquatic · drainage · dikes · migratory birds · egrets

cultivation

agriculture

Cultivation of land, livestock

weeding · fertilizing · harvesting · threshing · crop rotation · water management · soil fertility · farmers · subsistence · pesticides

Categories
Opposites
water management in agriculture

paddiesterraces

Raised flat outdoor areas

crop type and terrain

paddieswheat fields

Cultivated land for cereal

cornfields · orchards · vineyards · pastures · rangelands

water conditions

paddiesparched land

Extremely dry territory

dryland

Phrases
Family

rice paddies

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