Meanings
nounpaddy field (plural paddy fields)
plural paddy fields
- agricultureA flooded field where rice is grown.
On the journey southwards over the flat, fertile plains, paddy fields stretched away on each side of the line, and the landscape was broken only by wooden villages and stately pagodas.
1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325
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