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rice plant

On-Yomi: トウ、テ — Kun-Yomi: いね、いな-

Koohii stories:

1) [radical_tyro] 15-6-2007(519): The rice plant is common in Japan because all the wheat was eaten by vultures in the olden times.

2) [smithsonian] 4-3-2007(44): It used to be that wheat was grown in Japan. However, this was often stolen by vultures, so in olden times, the gods gave the Japanese the rice plant.

3) [altape] 2-1-2008(20): The rice plant evolved from wheat in olden times to defend itself against vultures eating it - rice causes vultures to explode.

4) [Rooboy] 1-4-2009(10): Wheat has been trying to claw its way in to japan since olden times but the rice plant still domiantes the landscape.

5) [Harrow] 9-12-2008(8): What we are calling wheat really refers to a rice plant, known to Wolverine from olden times (Wolverine is a lot older than he looks – he was born in the 1880s). Imagine Wolverine in ancient times (mukashi mukashi) planting rice by poking a little hole with his claws and then settling the plant into the mud.

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