Meanings

Mexican-American War (1846-1848)

America (land mass)

longevity celebration for one's 88th year

bobolink (species of songbird, Dolichonyx oryzivorous)

shift away from rice consumption

rice huller

ratio indicating the quantity of polished rice gained from a given quantity of brown rice (nowadays usually expressed as a percent)

rice cracker

American car

National Information Infrastructure

National Science Foundation (USA)

US government

rice contaminated by an accident

(husked grains of) rice

Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (ancient Chinese Daoist movement later known as The Way of the Celestial Masters)

cooked rice pack

North American continent

South American continent

rice (as provisions)

spoiled rice